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CSLI Service Learning – Exit Meeting

CSLI Service Learning – Exit Meeting . Review the process Review the findings Analyze - Hypotheses. Review the process. Under democracy, public has need to express its policy preferences CSLI serves community – provides feedback about policies and issues Students serve vital role.

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CSLI Service Learning – Exit Meeting

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  1. CSLI Service Learning – Exit Meeting Review the process Review the findings Analyze - Hypotheses

  2. Review the process • Under democracy, public has need to express its policy preferences • CSLI serves community – provides feedback about policies and issues • Students serve vital role

  3. Review the process – 1 • Evaluate the CSLI process • Review – what exactly did CSLI do? • Generate questionnaire • Orient students in intro meeting • Review questionnaire with students • Review nature of surveys/sampling • Train students in telephone/marking instructions • Conducted telephone interviews • Target 400-500 completions • Accomplished – 579 completions • Issue and post on Web site Press Release • Expect coverage in media – Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Examiner, Capital, WNAV

  4. Review the process -2 • Questionnaire issues – contactingpotential respondents • Was the opening statement OK? • Hello, I’m a student calling from Anne Arundel Community College. The College’s Center for the Study of Local Issues is conducting a survey on issues affecting Anne Arundel County Residents. The results of this survey will go out to all elected officials in AA County and the media. Would you please take a few minutes to complete this survey • Suggestions?

  5. Review the process - 3 • Questionnaire issues - Did any specific questions give you more problems than others? • Clarity • Public constantly asked for restatement • Vagueness of what is being asked • Did the respondents seem to think that the questions were generally interesting? • Did the respondents think that the survey was too long or short? • Other suggestions?

  6. Review the process - 4 • Public receptivity • Were you surprised by how easy/hard it was to obtain a completion? • Problems with phone numbers? • Idle chatter from respondents? • Bias among interviewers? • Partial completions?? • Other suggestions

  7. Findings – Most Important Problem

  8. Findings – Perceptions of Economic Conditions

  9. Findings – Perceptions of Economic ConditionsCounty vs. Country

  10. Findings – Economic Conditions

  11. Findings – County: Right/Wrong Direction

  12. Findings – County/state Issues

  13. Findings – Wind Turbines “Do you think that the STATE government should make it easier to install wind turbines to generate energy, even in scenic places like across the river from Annapolis where the old radio antennas are located or in state parks in Western Maryland?”

  14. State issues: Legalize Slots 2008 - Spring vs. Fall

  15. Findings – Attitudes toward Slots

  16. Findings – President Bush’s Job Approval

  17. Findings – Job Approval by Party

  18. Findings – President Bush’s Job Approval by Perception of the Economy

  19. Findings – President Vote by Party Registration

  20. Findings – President Vote by Bush Job Approval

  21. Findings – President Vote by Importance of Factors

  22. Findings – President Vote by Issues

  23. Analyze 1 – Exercise: Develop Hypotheses • Identify a dependent variable – attitude, preference • Identify an independent variable – a social/demographic characteristic • Specify a likely relationship between the two based on a “theory” or hunch • you have about people and attitudes • Example: • Theoretical assumption (hunch): • Republicans tend to be more concerned about ‘family values’ and rising taxes • Hypotheses: • 1. Republicans will be less favorable than Democrats to legalization of slots. • 2. Republicans will be less favorable to increasing taxes on hotel stays.

  24. Analyze - 2 Test Hypotheses using SPSS • Login • Go to CSLI Web site: http://www2.aacc.edu/csli • Double click on CSLI Fall 2008 Data • Weight the dataset /data/weight cases/weight cases by GenderWgt • Cross-tabs - /Analyze/Descriptive Statistics/Crosstabs • Find v13 Party Registration – click once on it to select it then use arrow to place in columns box • Find ‘v9’ – click once to select it then use arrow to place in rows box • Click on “cells” and then click on Percentages “columns” then OK • Click on “statistics” and then click on Nominal “Phi and Cramer’s V” OK • Click on OK in main crosstabs dialog box • Check results: Did a higher percentage of Republicans agree with “legalize slots”than did Democrats?” Were the results statistically significant – were the Phi and Cramer’s V values under the column “Approx. Sig” under .05? • If the answer is yes to both these questions, then it is possible that • your hypothesis is correct – you have disproved the ‘null hypothesis” • 13. Try it again with the “hotel tax” variable (v7.4) • 14. Continue with other hypotheses • 15. In the last 10 minutes, we will go around the room asking you to tell • us your most interesting finding

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