CSLI Service Learning

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CSLI Service Learning Exit Meeting

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

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Review the process 1

• Evaluate the CSLI process
• Review what exactly did CSLI do?
• Generated questionnaire
• Oriented students in intro meeting
• Reviewed questionnaire with students
• Reviewed nature of surveys/sampling
• Trained students in telephone/marking
  instructions
• Conducted telephone interviews
• Target at least 400 completions
• Accomplished 577 completions
• Issue and post on Web site Press Release
• Expect coverage in major media Capital

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Review the process -2

• Questionnaire issues initial contact
• Was the opening statement OK?
• Hello, Im a student calling from Anne Arundel
  Community College. The Colleges Center for the
  Study of Local Issues is conducting a survey on
  issues affecting Anne Arundel County Residents.
  Would you please take a few minutes to complete
  this survey
• Suggestions?

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Review the process - 3

• Questionnaire issues - questions
• - 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?

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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

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Findings Most Important Problem Fall 2003-Fall
2009
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The economyrate economic conditions
How would you rate economic conditions in
excellent, good, only fair or poor?
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The economycompare AAC/USA excellentgood
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The economydoes this apply?
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AA County Right/Wrong Direction
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Confidence in federal govt. 2008/2009
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Very plus somewhat confident by party, 2009/08
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Perceptions of 2020
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Perceptions of 2020 Health Care by Ideology and
Party
Health Care Quality/Access
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Budget Issues Party and Ideology
saying support
  All Dem Rep Ind. D-R
Maintaining the tuition freeze at the University of Maryland 79 79 79 85 0
Maintaining the level of state funding for public schools 78 81 76 77 5
Requiring school employees to take several unpaid days off 36 39 36 30 3
Shifting the cost of teachers pensions to local governments 24 23 28 20 -5
saying about right
OMalleys job balancing budget Good13
Okay42 Poor38
  All Dem Rep Ind. D-R
The governors policy of making state employees take three to 10 days of unpaid leave 51 55 50 47 5
Laying off 200 state employees 38 37 40 46 -3
The proposal to cut 210 million in state aid to localities in Maryland 32 29 39 36 -10
The proposal to cut 15 million in local aid to Anne Arundel County 31 30 36 27 -6
Cutting a combined 30 million in health-related funding 23 17 30 28 -13
  OMalley doing poor job
Ideology   
Conservative 55
Moderate 33
Liberal 10
Conservative-Liberal 45
Party  
Democrat 21
Republican 62
Independent 38
Democrat-Republican -41
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National Issues Presidential job approval
Obama
Bush
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National Issues approving of presidents job
by party
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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

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Test Hypotheses using SPSS

• Login
• Go to CSLI Web site http//www2.aacc.edu/csli
• Double click on CSLI Fall 2009 Data
• Weight the dataset /data/weight cases/weight
  cases by Weight
• Cross-tabs - /Analyze/Descriptive
  Statistics/Crosstabs
• Find Income75 click once on it to select it then
  use arrow to place in columns box
• Find v4.2 or v4.3 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 Cramers V OK
• Click on OK in main crosstabs dialog box
• Check results Did a higher percentage of under
  75k agree with unemploymentthan those over
  75k? 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 significant losses in
  stocks and retirement accounts variable (v4.3)
• 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