1st Edition

Teaching Your First Class Research for the New Faculty Member

Edited By Bruce D. McDonald III, William Hatcher Copyright 2025
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Doctoral programs provide training and mentorship for engaging in research, but they rarely provide training on how to be effective in the classroom—leading to many graduates obtaining their first faculty position with little to no teaching. These new faculty need a resource to help them navigate such difficult terrain and be successful teachers. This book was crafted with them in mind and is a... Read more

Introduction—Teaching Your First Class: Research for the New Faculty Member
Bruce D. McDonald III and William Hatcher

1. Toward a Signature Pedagogy for Public Administration
C. F. Abel

2. On Pedagogy and Andragogy: Balancing the Learning Needs of Pre-Service and In-Service MPA Students
Richard D. White Jr

3. Strategies for Teaching a Student-Centered Large Lecture Course in Public Affairs
Edmund J. Hansen and Richard S. Rubin

4. The Community as a Laboratory of Study: Getting Out of the Ivory Tower
Richard W. Jelier and Robert J. Clarke

5. Team-Based Learning: A Model for Democratic and Culturally Competent 21st Century Public Administrators
Karina Moreno Saldivar

6. How Do We Know What They Know? Evaluating Student-Learning Outcomes in an MPA Program
David C. Powell

7. Student Evaluations of Teaching: How You Teach and Who You Are
Heather E. Campbell, Sus Steiner and Karen Gerdes

8. When Do Online Education Technologies Enhance Student Engagement? A Case of Distance Education
Tara Kolar Bryan, Rebecca Lutte, Jooho Lee, Patrick O’Neil, Craig S. Maher, and A. Bryce Hoflund

9. Hybrid Course Design: Promoting Student Engagement and Success
Jennifer Shea, M. Ernita Joaquin and Meg Gorzycki

10. Comparing the Effectiveness of Classroom and Online Learning: Teaching Research Methods
Anna Ya Ni

11. Teaching Introduction to Public Administration via the Case Method
Cynthia Zeliff Massie

12. How to Write a Case Study for Public Affairs
William Hatcher, Bruce D. McDonald III and Lori A. Brainard

13. Using Learning Analytics to Predict At-Risk Students in Online Graduate Public Affairs and Administration Education
Jay Bainbridge, James Melitski, Anne Zhradnik, Eitel J. M. Lauria, Sandeep Jayaprakash, and Josh Baron

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Biography

Bruce D. McDonald III is Professor of Public Budgeting and Finance at NC State University, Raleigh, USA. He is the editor-in-chief of Public Administration and the co-editor-in-chief of both Public Finance Journal and the Journal of Public Affairs Education. He is also the general editor for both the Routledge Public Affairs Education Book Series and the Routledge Public Budgeting and Finance Book Series.

William Hatcher is Professor of Public Administration and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Augusta University, USA. He also serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education and is general editor for the Routledge Public Affairs Education Book Series.