Archive: CERL Research Papers

• Evaluation of the We the People Program: Student Knowledge

  By Diana Owen This study compares student knowledge outcomes of high school teachers who have experienced the We the People professional development program and instruct the associated curriculum

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, James Madison Legacy Project

• Workshop: Educating High-Need Students for Citizenship

  By Diana Owen, Maria Gallo, Kathryn Hartzell, and Jenny Lee The need to improve civic education in the nation’s middle and high schools is especially pressing for high-need students—students livin

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, James Madison Legacy Project

• New Media and Political Campaigns

  By Diana Owen New media have been playing an increasingly central role in American elections since they first appeared in 1992. While television remains the main source of election information for

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Civic Engagement

• Research Report: The State of Technology in Global Newsrooms 2017

  By Diana Owen The State of Technology in Global Newsrooms is the first-ever survey on the adoption of digital technologies in news media worldwide. The International Center for Journalists, workin

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, State of Technology in Global Newsrooms

• Educating High Need Students for Engagement in the Digital Age

  By Diana Owen The civic education of high need students—students living in poverty, minority students, English language learners, and special needs students—often is shortchanged, contributing to

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Civics in the Digital Age

• Civic Education and the Making of Citizens in the Digital Age

  By Diana Owen This research examines the extent to which junior high and high school civic education instills in citizens the propensity to attend to political media. It explores if and how second

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Civics in the Digital Age