CSLI Service Learning Exit Meeting

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CSLI Service Learning Exit Meeting

• Review the process
• Review the findings
• Analyze - Hypotheses

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Review the process

• 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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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 419 completions
• Issue Press Release
• Expect coverage in media Baltimore Sun,
  Baltimore Examiner, Capital, WNAV
• Web site press release posted

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Review the process -2

• 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?
• Suggestions?

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Review the process - 3

• Public receptivity
• Were you surprised by how easy/hard it was to
  obtain a completion?
• Problems with phone numbers?
• Bias among respondents?
• Bias among interviewers?
• Partial completions?
• Introductory script needs any modification?
• Other suggestions

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Findings Most Important Problem
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Findings Perceptions of Economic Conditions
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Findings Economic Conditions
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Findings County Right/Wrong Direction
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Findings County Issues
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Findings County Issues Pay Raises
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Findings State issues Slots and Cell Phones
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Findings National Issues - Immigration
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Findings Attitudes toward Immigrants
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Findings Attitudes toward Immigrants by
Benefited from Services by Illegal Immigrants
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Findings President Bushs Job Approval
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Findings - 15
Bush Job Approval by Party
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Findings President Bushs Job Approval by
Perception of the Economy
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Findings 16
Iraq Policy by Party Ideology
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Findings Presidential Voting Preferences
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Findings - 18
Candidate Traits Percentage Citing
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Analyze 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)
• Democrats tend to be more liberal regarding
  domestic and foreign policy
• Hypotheses
• 1. Democrats will be more favorable than
  Republicans to diplomatic approaches
• 2. Democrats will be more favorable to
  stormwater management fees

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Analyze - 2
Test Hypotheses using SPSS

• Login
• Go to CSLI Web site http//www2.aacc.edu/csli
• Double click on CSLI Spring 2008 Data
• Weight the dataset /data/weight cases/weight
  cases by Gender Weighting
• Cross-tabs - /Analyze/Descriptive
  Statistics/Crosstabs
• Find v11 Party click once on it to select it
  then use arrow to place in columns box
• Find v13.2 Favor military strength or diplomatic
  approaches click once to selectit 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 Cramers V OK
• Click on OK in main crosstabs dialog box
• Check results Did a higher percentage of
  Democrats agree with diplomatic approach than
  did Republicans? Were the results
  statistically significant were the Phi and
  Cramers 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 stormwater management
  variable
• 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