COVID-19, Crises, and Public Support for the Rule of Law Teaching Modules

The COVID-19, Crises and Support for the Rule of Law Teaching Modules provide an engaging way for undergraduate students to investigate questions relating to the public compliance with and response to state actions meant to quell the viral spread. These modules will provide students an opportunity to critically engage questions surrounding public policy and state responses to the global pandemic, while honing their skills using the tools of social science. The modules are based on research funded by the National Science Foundation, which contain original surveys of U.S. and German residents collected since the onset of the global crisis. The first two modules examine the shift in time spent outside the home before and after crisis onset, and in response to governmentally imposed stay-at-home orders. The third module shifts focus to the public’s (in)tolerance for non-compliance with mask-wearing ordinances in the United States. Through these modules, instructors and students can engage with an issue that is happening in real time, and explore how implicit biases may shape willingness to punish non-compliance with local mandates. These modules are targeted towards advanced undergraduates in applied statistics or upper-division courses; students are asked to engage the use of descriptive statistics, data visualization, hypothesis testing, bivariate and multivariate regression. Further, modules two and three also include experimental components of the research design, which may lend themselves to discussions regarding observational vs. experimental research, causal identification, and potential threats to inference.Each module includes the dataset, assignments, codebooks and documentation as well as the R and Stata code used to answer the questions. For an answer key, instructors may contact the authors directly, using their university affiliated email address.  These data and teaching modules are based on data from Driscoll, Krehbiel and Nelson, 2020 “RAPID: COVID-19, Crises and Support for the Rule of Law,” National Science Foundation, SES-2027653, SES-2027664, SES-2027671. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Instructors interested in the answer key for these teaching modules should contact Taylor Chewning ([e-mail]) via your institutional email address.

《COVID-19、危机与法治支持教学模块》旨在为本科生提供一种引人入胜的方式来探究与公众对旨在遏制病毒传播的政府行动的遵从与应对相关的议题。这些模块将为学生们提供一个批判性地探讨公共政策及国家应对全球大流行病策略的机会，同时通过运用社会科学工具来锤炼他们的专业技能。该模块基于国家科学基金会资助的研究，其中包含自全球危机爆发以来收集的美国和德国居民的原始调查数据。前两个模块考察了危机前后在家外度过的时间变化，以及政府实施的居家令的响应。第三个模块则转向探讨美国公众对佩戴口罩规章（in）容忍度。通过这些模块，教师和学生可以实时参与到正在发生的问题中，并探讨隐含偏见如何可能塑造对违反地方命令的惩罚意愿。这些模块针对应用统计学或高年级课程的高级本科生；学生被要求运用描述性统计、数据可视化、假设检验、双变量和多变量回归等方法进行探究。此外，第二和第三个模块还包括研究设计的实验成分，这可能有助于就观察性研究与实验性研究、因果识别以及推断潜在威胁进行讨论。每个模块都包含数据集、作业、代码簿和文档，以及用于回答问题的R和Stata代码。如需答案关键，教师可以直接通过其所属大学的电子邮件地址联系作者。这些数据和教学模块基于Driscoll、Krehbiel和Nelson于2020年的研究数据，标题为“RAPID：COVID-19、危机与法治支持”，国家科学基金会项目编号SES-2027653、SES-2027664、SES-2027671。本材料中表达的任何观点、发现、结论或建议均为作者个人观点，并不一定反映国家科学基金会的观点。对答案关键感兴趣的教师可以通过您的机构电子邮件地址联系Taylor Chewning（[e-mail]）。