Class 6 Hand in your work log, agenda, and paper shell.

Class Agenda Dale Carnegie Appendices standards Review of Research Methods Meet with supervisors and do graphing exercise

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Horror Stories Clients are clueless

Report Appendices The appendices will include anything you used to create your report. Everyone needs to include: Blank survey or report files (if you don’t have a survey) Survey with response frequencies (we will go over today) Disaggregated Data (we will go over next week) Codebook and Excel spreadsheet (first page only- landscape if necessary)- in one appendix You may add any additional materials in the appendices that your client will want to have when they read the report

Blank Survey

Response Frequencies

Include frequencies of responses and no responses “No Response” does not get included in your n. Put them in as a frequency, NOT percentage

Research Methods Paper Grades Min: 5 Max: 14 Mean: 10 Median: 10 Mode: 10

Question 1- Agency Goals Attach the first page to this page of the most important documents that provides information on the agency. Documents can be electronic or in print. Quote or paraphrase one statement that makes a specific claim about the achievements of the agency. Use Chapters 1 and 2 of Is that a Fact? to discuss how you would assess that claim of the agency. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU?! Outputs vs Outcomes Average score: 1.2 out of 2.0

Question 2- Describe Your Project By each item below, describe as briefly as possible the characteristics of the your study Name of organization Give a Brief Title that Describes the Project Purpose of the study –attitudinal, factual or both. Source of Data—Survey, records, other What is your data’s case or unit of analysis What are your variables? List all variables or categories of variables. Problems you anticipate Average score 1.7 out of 2.0

Question 3- Types of Analysis in 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 in the general societal condition that your agency deals with. Describing Societal Conditions (called Monitoring in Chapter 13) Explaining Societal Conditions Forecasting Societal Conditions Evaluating Societal Conditions Prescribing Public Policy Average score.7 out of 1.0

Question 4. Quality of Data Using lectures and Chapters 3, 4 and 5 from Is that a Fact?, answer the following questions using appropriate terms in the book whether your data is based on a survey or records: Is your sampling frame a random sampling frame? Why or Why Not? Describe sources of selection bias in your data. How will you decide if your data is a representative sample? List source of inaccuracy in your data. -People are still making mistakes -Poor writing in explanation Average Score 2.1 out of 3.0

Question 5-Assessing Representativeness Answer each question below in four sentences or fewer. For a hypothetical project (not yours), if you had a sample of 30, would you consider the sample representative? Create a table that compares males and female demographics in a sample and target population. Please include a column for the percent difference between the males and females in the sample versus the target population. Use hypothetical numbers. Write one sentence summarizing the numbers in your table on whether or not the sample is representative. -Need to know the size of the target population. HELLO! -Comparison table mistakes: -Columns must add to 100% and get the sign right. -It should be there is not enough information to answer this question. Average Score 1.3 out of 2.0

Question 6- Misleading Graphs Could be a trendline or a bar graph Y AXIS SHOULD START AT 0 ALL text is Times New Roman, size 12 font Chart title and axis titles are bold Axis lines should be black Include data labels above bar graphs No border around graph No gridlines DO NOT resize your graph in MS Word No one lost more than 1 point on graph formatting Average Score 1.8 out of 2.0

Question 7- Scaling Numbers Answers: New JerseyCalifornia 1 in 25 women1 in 48 women 4 in 100 women2 in 100 women 40 in 1000 women21 in 1000 women 4,000 in 100,000 women21 in 100,000 women Average score.6 out of 1.0

Question 8- Percent Change Don’t forget +/- ! Average score 1.7 out of 2.0 Demographics— Clifton Park, NY Ethnic/Racial Group 2000 Census2010 CensusDifferencePercent Change White 36,635 39,410+2, % Black/ African American %

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Reminders Due in 2 weeks, 3/6 Rough Draft

Graphing Exercise In Your Threesome Working in groups you will: Complete each question in the exercise. THE ANSWERS MUST BE PERFECTLY FORMATTED FINDINGS Get approval from Coplin, Lauren, Ashley or Amanda before moving on to the next question Follow sample finding format in guide Everyone will work in MaxPal There are 13 groups- one group member must log onto a computer in MAXPAL (preferably the one with money on their printing quota)

Groups for Exercise GROUP 1GROUP 2GROUP 3GROUP 4GROUP 5 Allison AdamsDayana BobkoCelina BridgesJen BundyTammy Chan Taylor BoldJordan CampoNick ImpsonIasiah JonesNicole Keler Jared BlyJack DonsichLin HanJeannette HannaChris Loftus Arianna Rogers GROUP 6GROUP 7GROUP 8GROUP 9GROUP 10 Emma EdwardsWendy FengSarah GruczaGill KorenIvan Robles Miri LeeJeff LopezBrian McKittirckAshlee NewmanZach Reimers Mahlet MakonnenNicole OsborneBrenda PalaciosAdam PelnerConor Sullivan GROUP 11GROUP 12GROUP 13Group 14 Enith SanchezTed PalmerMarlei SimonJohn Tanza Jon LeeAsha ShirwaCatherine WarrenCoralis Anis ZamaniMatt RiceLevi SteinTim Quinn