Does Knowledge of Constitutional Principles Increase Support for Civil Liberties? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

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ISPS ID: 
D035
Suggested citation: 

Green, Donald P., Peter M. Aronow, Daniel E. Bergan, Pamela Greene, Celia Paris, Beth I. Weinberger (2010), Replication materials for ‘Does Knowledge of Constitutional Principles Increase Support for Civil Liberties? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment,’ http://hdl.handle.net/10079/baddcabe-a13e-4e1a-beb7-6a1f7e2ed276. ISPS Data Archive.

Author(s): 

Daniel Bergen, Pamela Greene, Peter Aronow, Donald P. Green, Beth I. Weinberger, Celia Paris

Research design: 
Data type: 
Survey
Data source(s): 

Authors

Data source information: 

isps(at)yale(dot)edu

Field date: 
June 1, 2007
Field Date: 
2007-05 - 2007-06
Location: 
Location details: 
A diverse array of schools in an eastern state participated in this study.
Unit of observation: 
Individual
Sample size: 
Our experiment involves roughly one thousand high school students, fifty-nine classrooms, and ten public schools of widely varying socio-economic characteristics
Inclusion/exclusion: 
A diverse array of schools in an eastern state participated in this study. These schools represent a broad spectrum of secondary educational settings ranging from urban to suburban to rural-regional. They include both traditional public high schools and public vocational-technical schools.
Randomization procedure: 
In each high school, we randomly assigned students to exposure to a BRRL-enhanced civics course or to a control group in which civics was taught in its usual manner. We employed one of three different randomization procedures so that we could match teachers’ needs with the requirements of the study: (1) a teacher teaching more than one civics class or section allowed us to randomly assign at least one class to the treatment group and at least one to the control group: (2) a teacher willing to teach either all classes as treatment classes or all classes as control classes allowed us to randomly pick which experimental group the teacher would be assigned to; or (3) students were assigned by their school’s registrar to one civics class or another in a manner that was effectively random.
Treatment: 
Teachers presented all 21 BRRL lessons as a supplement to their civics curriculum. Teachers in control classes were given no instruction as to course content or curricular guidelines for those classes, other than to not use lessons or materials from the BRRL curriculum.
Treatment administration: 
BRRL lessons
Outcome measures: 
Political knowledge,civil liberties knoweldge,and support for civil liberties
Archive date: 
2021
Owner: 
Authors
Owner contact: 

isps(at)yale(dot)edu

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