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Logging in to Learn: The Effects of Online Civic Education Pedagogy on a Latinx and AAPI Civic Engagement Youth Conference

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Logging in to Learn: The Effects of Online Civic Education Pedagogy on a Latinx and AAPI Civic Engagement Youth Conference
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JS6AVN
 
Creator Lamb, Matt
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Civic education is essential to the health of any democracy. When COVID-19 hit in the
spring of 2020, almost all civic education efforts went online. This increased interest in
the effectiveness of online civic education. Does online civic education lead to similar
outcomes as in-person education? Utilizing student evaluations from a youth civic
engagement conference co-run by Latinx and AAPI focused civic mobilization
organizations, I compare learning outcomes on multiple dimensions of civic education
from an in-person youth civic engagement conference in 2019 to those of an online
2020 conference. I find that though students in both conferences improved over the
course of each conference, the 2019 in-person conference yielded slightly greater
improvement in civic knowledge confidence than the online conference. Other
dimensions, verifiable knowledge, self-efficacy and community consciousness, did
increase after participation in the conference in each year, however, the increases were similar between the online and in-person formats.
 
Subject Social Sciences
civic education; online pedagogy; American politics
 
Date 2023-10-04
 
Contributor Lamb, Matt