Publication Type: Session Paper
Abstract: This presentation will review how I have applied Sense-Making Methodology (SMM) over a 20 year period to both graduate student and undergraduate education. SMM has been applied as a “universal” approach that emphasizes how “non-expert” and “expert” worlds can interconnect outside the impositional constraints of noun-based hierarchical domain-oriented expertise. In SMM, this kind of communicative intersection is posited as essential to move education from mere transmission to more genuine communication in which the world views of both non-expert and expert, lived experience and expertise matter. Application contexts have involved some 80 classroom settings over a 20 year period with both undergraduate and graduate students.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper provides the results of an analysis of on-line assessments given to undergraduate criminal justice students at an eastern state university. The format, content, and resources used in an on-line course are described and evaluated to determine the effectiveness of assessment methods on student learning outcomes. Individual student characteristics, level of interaction, and assessment methods will be discussed. Finally, a comparison of paper-and-pencil examinations with on-line examinations will be presented and correlated.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This study compared a national RDD telephone survey (by the Center for Survey Research at Ohio State University) with national Internet surveys (by Knowledge Networks and Harris Interactive) done before and after the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election using the same questionnaires. The samples recruited by the Center for Survey Research and Knowledge Networks were more representative of the nation than was the volunteer Harris Interactive sample in terms of demographics and electoral participation. The Harris Interactive sample was more engaged in and knowledgeable about politics than were the other two samples. The Harris Interactive sample manifested less random measurement error and less survey satisficing than did the other two samples. Data collected via the Internet manifested less social desirability response bias than the telephone data after controlling for differences between the samples in terms of demographics and political engagement.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Proceeding
Abstract: Can we measure compliance with the demands on which economic sanctions on Iraq were conditioned with rigor and precision? We argue that it is possible, but only with a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of compliance. This paper uses structured, focused comparison of cases to guide the construction of a spatial model for the study of sanctions compliance. It then uses that spatial model to examine the patterns of compliance that Iraq exhibited with the demands of the United Nations Security Council economic sanctions regime in the 1990s. We argue that a multi-method approach allows scholars to compare relative partial compliance in an innovative way. The sharpness that this methodological innovation brings to the study of compliance, we argue, provides deeper insight into the political relationship between sanctioner and sanctioned than current work on sanctions is able to provide.
Our model is uniquely able to demonstrate that Iraq’s relative partial compliance increased through the early and mid-1990s, decreased in the late 1990s, and increased again in the months following the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. We conclude by formulating hypotheses concerning the reason behind these policy shifts on the part of the Iraqi government, which provide insight into the question of whether Iraq was the ‘threat to international peace and security’ that the United States claimed in its petition for Security Council aid in the invasion.