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.

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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 Goal3.1 State and define a goal of your agency

3.2 Describe the data you would use to measure the goal

3.3 Discuss threats to the validity of the data

3.4 Discuss threats to the reliability of the data

3.5 Identify an output that supports the goal of your agency

3.6 Identify an outcome related to the output identified above  

 

Question 4: Describe Your Project4.1 Name of organization

4.2 Give a Brief Title that Describes the Project

4.3 Purpose of the study –attitudinal, factual or both.

4.4 Source of Data—Survey, records, other

4.5 What is your data’s case or unit of analysis

4.6 List 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.

5.1 Describing Societal Conditions (called Monitoring in Chapter 13)

5.2 Explaining Societal Conditions

5.3 Forecasting Societal Conditions

5.4 Evaluating Societal Conditions

5.5 Prescribing 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 100Scaling 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, 1986. p. 781.

STATE DEATHS

California 4,999

New York 2,065

Alabama 939

Massachusetts 663

New Mexico 497

Scaling Numbers (not %) (ch.16)Allows you to compare items of different sizeExample

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

State Deaths

California 4,999

New York 2,065

Alabama 939

Massachusetts 663

New Mexico 497

Traffic death rate per 100 million miles driven, 1985

State Deaths / 100 mil. miles

New Mexico 4.3

Alabama 3.1

California 2.9

New York 2.4

Massachusetts 1.7

Problem with Percentages

State Deaths Total MilesPer 100 mil.

milesPercent per total

miles

CA4999 172,379,310,345 2.9 0.000290%

NY2065 86,041,666,667 2.4 0.000240%

AL939 30,290,322,581 3.1 0.000310%

MA663 39,000,000,000 1.7 0.000170%

NM497 11,558,139,535 4.3 0.000430%

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. 88-89 & 198-200 in Maxwell ManualIn order to see if a pattern exists in your data, you need to determine the percent change between yearsIt 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 periodsExample: Number of felonies in NYC in 1981 was 637,451. There were 538,051 in 1984.

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 = -15.99% = -16%

637,451 637,451

Graphing

Graphing Using guidelines you’ve been provided in class, create a graph.

Refer to your template from the week 3 trainingThere are videos on the PAF 315 website under “Trainings” and “Week 3”

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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 handTurn 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)