 Professor
Kent
E. Portney - Quantitative Methods, Public Policy, Political Behavior
Research & Publications
Digital Decision Simulations
Books:
Virtual Decisions:
Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing Company, 2006. Co-edited with Steve Cohen, Dean Rehberger, and Carolyn Thorsen.
Articles and Papers:
 "Practical Contexts and Theoretical Frameworks for Teaching Social Complexity with Digital Role-play Simulations," Chapter 1 in Steve Cohen, Kent Portney, Dean Rehberger, and Carolyn Thorsen, eds., Virtual Decisions:
Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing Company, 2005. Co-authored with Steve Cohen.
"Teaching About Criminal Sentencing Decisions: The Crime and Punishment Simulations," chapter 5 in Steve Cohen, Kent Portney, Dean Rehberger, and Carolyn Thorsen, eds.,
Virtual Decisions: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing Company, 2005.
"From Analog to Digital: The Challenge of Teaching About Criminal Sentencing," Paper. With Jerry Goldman, Steve Cohen, and Sal Soraci.
"From Analog to Digital: Teaching About Criminal Sentencing with Technology," in David G. Brown, ed.
Computer Enhanced Learning: Vignettes of Best Practice from America’s Most Wired Campuses. (Boston, MA: Anker Publishing Co.), June 1999, Chapter 32. Co-authored with Steve Cohen, Jerry Goldman, and Sal Soraci.
Crime and Punishment Simulation Materials:
The Crime and Punishment web site
Short Review of the Crime and Punishment simulation
Envisioning the Future Conference – The Presentation by Kent Portney, Jerry
Goldman and Steve Cohen; contains the full presentation in RealAudio
format.
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