ICPSR: Resources for Teaching

Instructional videos available from ICPSR's YouTube Channel

• Encouraging Students to Use Their Sociological Imagination Using Data

• Helping Students to Measure Income and Health Inequality using Data

• In-Depth with ICPSR - ICPSR Education and Teaching Services

• Integrating Data Analysis at the Community College

• Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD) Today - Health data, political data, and so much more!

• Spice Up Your Lecture with Inquiry-based Learning

• Using ICPSR Data to Teach Deviance and Other Social Science Concepts

• Active Learning in Political Science
• Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
• Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE)
• Gapminder
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
• National Numeracy Network
• New Educational Materials on Trends in Inequality
• Office Hours
• POV
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
• Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN)
• Sociological Images
• Sociology in Focus
• Statistics Rap
• Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research (TIER)
• Teaching With Data
• TRAILS (Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology)
• The Sociological Cinema
• The Teaching Professor
• US Census Bureau Data Visualization Gallery

Data Driven Learning Guides

Exercises used to teach concepts in social science utilizing online analysis available from ICPSR

1. Acculturation
2. Age and Attitudes about the Rights of Homosexuals
3. Aging and Caregiving
4. Aging and Social Integration
5. Altruism
6. The American Dream at the Turn of the 21st Century
7. American Identity and Immigrant Resentment
8. Attitudes about Global Warming in the United States
9. Attitudes about Racial Discrimination and Racial Inequality in the US
10. Attitudes toward Electoral Accountability
11. Attitudinal Stability on Short- and Long-term Issues
12. Body Image, Gender, and School Experience in Adolescence
13. Characteristics of Teen Substance Users
14. Civic Participation and Demographics in Rural China
15. Crime Victimization in the US
16. Demographics and Non-Traditional Civic Participation
17. Educational Attainment
18. Ethics and Politics
19. Euthanasia
20. Exploring the Gender Gap
21. Exploring the Second Shift
22. Free Blacks in Philadelphia, PA in the mid-19th Century
23. Frequency Distributions
24. Gambling Behavior in the United States
25. Gender and Occupation
26. Gender and Racial Differences in Teens' Attitudes about Sexuality
27. Gender in STEM Education
28. Gender Role Attitudes in Japan
29. Generational Trends in Attitudes about Gun Ownership
30. Homelessness
31. Identity Politics and the Latino vs. Hispanic Debate
32. Intergroup Relationships - Attitudes and Behaviors
33. Interpersonal Power in Intimate Relationships
34. Investigating Bias and Measurement Validity
35. Is Love Really Blind?
36. Issue Evolution
37. June Cleaver: Myth or Reality?
38. Partisanship
39. Racial Disparities in Mental Health
40. Religion among Teens
41. Religion and Opinions on Democracy in Ghana
42. The Significance of Linked Fate for Women
43. Social Capital in South Africa
44. Social Capital Over Time and Across Generations
45. Social Change
46. Social Class and Attitudes about Inequality
47. Social Class and Health
48. State Legislator Job Duties
49. State Legislators and Representation
50. US Foreign Policy towards Haiti 1994
51. Voter Turnout in the U.S.
52. The War on Terror

Crosstab Assignment Builder

Tool used to "build simple tables to share with students"

According to ICPSR, the Crosstab Assignment Builder allows faculty to select subsets of variables for students to use in creating crosstabulation tables. The instructor selects a dataset, identifies relevant variables, and chooses options related to the desired level of student autonomy in table creation. A URL is generated that provides access to the limited-choice table where students can modify the display and create charts or graphs as appropriate.

Other exercises are available here