Class 4 Hold onto your hypothetical executive summaries. You should have 3 hard copies & 1 electronic copy. Please turn in your Agenda/Work Logs at the front table.

Class Agenda Announcements Dale Carnegie Speeches Client Project Report Formatting Tips Research Methods Paper Meet with Supervisors on Ex. Summaries

Dale Carnegie Presentations Today Patty Erica Lauren Julian Joel Emma

Hypothetical Executive Summary We’ll break into groups of three Circle any mistakes you find Choose best one to present to class

Question 1: Website WEBSITE ANALYSIS (Maximum 1 page- 2 points) Use Chapter 10 of Coplin-Dwyer 7 Bare Essentials for Website to assess your agencies website

Question 2: Bare Essentials for Your Agency Read through Chapters 1-9 Select the five most important bare essentials that your agency or program should meet from the many listed in Chapters 1-9 With one sentence following each item saying why it is one of the five most important bare essential.

Question 3: Agency Goal 3.1State and define a goal of your agency 3.2Describe the data you would use to measure the goal 3.3Discuss threats to the validity of the data 3.4Discuss threats to the reliability of the data 3.5Identify an output that supports the goal of your agency 3.6Identify an outcome related to the output identified above

Question 4: Describe Your Project 4.1 Name of organization 4.2Give a Brief Title that Describes the Project 4.3Purpose of the study –attitudinal, factual or both. 4.4Source of Data—Survey, records, other 4.5What is your data’s case or unit of analysis 4.6List all quantitative variables for: A.All data B.Policy outputs C.Policy outcomes

Question 5: Types of Analysis for Your Study Carefully read Chapter 13 of the Maxwell Manual. Write one sentence that provides an example for each of the following five types of analysis used in discussing the general societal condition that your agency deals with. 5.1Describing Societal Conditions (called Monitoring in Chapter 13) 5.2Explaining Societal Conditions 5.3Forecasting Societal Conditions 5.4Evaluating Societal Conditions 5.5Prescribing Public Policy

Question 6: Quality of the Data 6.1 Discuss how well the data represents the target population. 6.2 Discuss how accurately the data reflects what it is supposed to.

Question 7: Scaling Numbers (Maximum 1 page, double spaced) (2 points) The total miles driven in New Jersey in 2011 was estimated at 73,094,000,000. The total miles driven California in 2011 was estimated at 320,784,000,000. In 2011, there were 26,206 DUI arrests in New Jersey and 104,345 DUI arrests in California. Create a rate that would be easy to understand in comparing the two states. Write a sentence comparing the two rates. Explain why the rate is better than the percentages in comparing the two states.

A percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction out of 100 Scaling numbers involves converting raw numbers into rates A rate is the one number divided by the total of cases. Example, 5 out of 10 students are silly. It would read. 5 per 10 students are silly. Scaling Numbers

Total Traffic Deaths, Selected States, 1985 Source: National Safety Council. The World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, p STATEDEATHS California4,999 New York2,065 Alabama939 Massachusetts663 New Mexico497

Scaling Numbers (not %) (ch.16) Allows you to compare items of different size Example Raw values make NY appear more dangerous to drive in than NM. But when shown as deaths per 100 million miles driven NM has a considerably higher rate. You may NOT use percentages. Total traffic deaths in selected states 1985 StateDeaths California4,999 New York2,065 Alabama939 Massachusetts663 New Mexico497 Traffic death rate per 100 million miles driven, 1985 StateDeaths / 100 mil. miles New Mexico4.3 Alabama3.1 California2.9 New York2.4 Massachusetts1.7

Problem with Percentages StateDeathsTotal MilesPer 100 mil. milesPercent per total miles CA ,379,310, % NY ,041,666, % AL 93930,290,322, % MA 66339,000,000, % NM 49711,558,139, %

Percentage Change (Maximum of ½ page, double spaced) (2 points) Go to the American Fact Finder on the Census website and use the “Advance Search” feature to look up your hometown. Choose the 2 largest ethnic/racial groups and calculate percent change for each group between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. If your hometown does not have census results for 2000 and 2010, select another city/town near you. Complete the table below and briefly describe the changes in the 2 ethnic/racial groups in a paragraph.

Percent Change Pgs & in Maxwell Manual In order to see if a pattern exists in your data, you need to determine the percent change between years It gives you a precise indicator of the amount of change from one time period to the next Percent change = [(New figure – Old figure) / Old figure] x 100

Differences between two periods using percent change (show calculations) (ch.16) Percent Difference shows change between time periods Example: Number of felonies in NYC in 1981 was 637,451. There were 538,051 in HOW TO CALCULATE PERCENT CHANGE: New Figure – Original Figure * 100 = Percent Difference Original Figure INCLUDE IN YOUR PAPER: 1984 felonies – 1981 felonies * 100 = Percent Difference 1981 felonies 538,051 – 637,451 * 100 = -99,400 * 100 = % = -16% 637,451

Graphing

Using guidelines you’ve been provided in class, create a graph. Refer to your template from the week 3 training There are videos on the PAF 315 website under “Trainings” and “Week 3”

Dale Carnegie 2/11 Dilsia Lindsay Anqi Avery Hollis Sheron

Meet with Supervisors Review of Executive Summaries

Go to MaxPal if you need to make major revisions to your executive summary Minor corrections can be written in by hand Turn in your paper today in the PAF office in the PAF INBOX (to the right of the desk) by 4:00PM! Hypothetical Executive Summary

Reminders If it’s ready, turn in your Executive Summary as you leave Pick up Executive Summary on Monday between 9 and 4:30 Due next class: Research Methods Paper due at beginning of class (Complete using template)