ChatGPT's increased proliferation presents new challenges and opportunities for higher education. This APSA Educate resource collection spotlights how political science educators are addressing AI in their classrooms.
Published: September 25, 2024 | Latest Update: November 10, 2025
Classroom Approaches
- Testing ChatGPT in International Relations Classrooms: Potentialities, Limitations, and What's Next | Paola Rivetti, Rituparna Banerjee, David O'Mullane
- Context Matters: Understanding Student Usage, Skills, and Attitudes Towards AI to Inform Classroom Policies | Christine Cahill and Katherine McCabe
- The Impact of Infrastructure: Considerations of Generative AI in the Classroom | E. Stefan Kehlenbach
- ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence Challenges and Opportunities | Marjorie R. Hershey
- Teaching (with) Artificial Intelligence: The Next Twenty Years | Steven Michels
Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
- AI versus Students: A Study of the Capability of ChatGPT to Write Model United Nations Position Papers | Jennifer L. De Maio, Ismail Kabalaki, Shayan Moshtael, and Michael A. Tejax
- Surveying the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Political Science Education | Nicole Wu and Patrick Y. Wu
- Can Chat GPT and Crowdsourced Forecasting Help Students Think About International Relations? A New Class Assignment | Justin Robertson
- Political Science Exams in the Age of AI | Erik Ringmar
Data Literacy and Research Information
- Teaching with AI: An in-class activity with students' policy memos | James Quirk
- Considering Edtech in Political Science Teaching: Data Literacy, Privacy Rights, and the Role of Government in Regulation | Janet L. Donavan
- Confronting Misinformation in the Civics Classroom | Diana Owens
Academic Integrity
- In Part Usage of AI And Academic Integrity | Cristina Juverdeanu
AI’s High Stakes Risks for Democracy: Journal of Democracy Subject Guide
- This collection of essays from The Journal of Democracy examines how AI technology impacts and will continue to affect human rights and democracy.
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