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PAF 101—MODULE 2 GRADE SHEET

 * BASED ON CHAPTERS 2, 3, & 4**

Name: Societal Category: Group #: __MAXIMUM__ __YOUR__ __EXERCISE__ __POINTS__ __SCORE__ __COMMENTS__ 2.1 6 2.2 8  2.3 6 __ 2.4 6 __ 2.5 12 __ 2.6 15 __ 2.7 5  3.1 30 __ 4.1 16 __ 4.2 8 __ 4.3 15 __ 4.4 6 __ 4.5 6 __ 4.6 16 Subtotal for Paper __155__ Points Deducted: Late Paper _ Writing _ Organization _ Participation _

__Total Points Deducted__ __Extra Credit Points:__ __Competition__ _ __Speakers__ _ Total Extra Credit Points = =
 * TOTAL GRADE**


 * MODULE TWO** 155 __#__

__PAF 101 EXERCISES – MODULE 2__
__**BASED ON CHAPTERS 2, 3, & 4**__ __ Whenever you use a source in your answer, including all quotes, you must provide an APA-style internal citation and a full APA-style reference in the References page exercise, except in the case of personal communications. HINT: Most of these exercises require citations. __ __**Whenever you attach an article, it must be directly behind the exercise in which it appears, and it must be clearly labeled with the exercise number and letter to which it pertains. Attach only the first page of the article unless otherwise stated.**__ __ Whenever searching for articles or other sources, do not use any information pertaining to other countries than the United States. __ __**Exercise 2.1: Locating Quantitative Data**__ __**Your Total Score:**__**_ __(Maximum: 6 points)__**
 * __You must use the LexisNexis Statistical Datasets to find a trend line graph and accompanying data table with at least three pieces of data, relevant to your societal category. The data must represent information within the last five years. Use the database’s ‘print’ feature to print out that graph and data table. Attach the print out directly behind the page on which this exercise appears. (6 points)__**

__**China Data Center (2008). “Rate of Industrial Waste Water up to the Discharge Standards”, Environemental Protection[data file]. WebCEO, LexisNexis Statistical Datasets (10/14/10)**__
 * __Write one sentence describing one data point from your trend line graph and include an internal citation here: **In 2001 industrial waste water up to standard discharge rates in China reached a new record at 85% of water released being up-to-code.**__


 * __Identify the Source Organization for this data and indicate that here: **Data Planet**__

__**Exercise 2.2: Finding Periodical Articles**__ __**Your Total Score:**__**_ __(Maximum: 8 points)__** __**Using the ProQuest Research Library database, locate a news or magazine article relevant to your societal category at any geographic level. Do not use an article from an academic journal. Attach a photocopy or printout of the first page of the article directly behind this exercise. Make sure the article was published within the last six months.**__

__**“The constraints on resources and environment-compounded by the rise of the middle class in nations such as China and India—will shape the rest of the century and beyond.”**__
 * __Quote one relevant sentence from the article that is related to your societal category here:__

__**Moyer, M. Sept 2010. How much is left? //Scientific American//. Vol. 303. Iss. 3; pg 74**__

__**Exercise 2.3: Locating Books**__ __**Your Total Score:**__**_ __(Maximum: 6 points)__**
 * __Using the library catalog, find a book on your societal category at any geographic level. The publication date of the book must be within the last fifteen years. Books published by the government may not be used for this exercise. Attach a photocopy of the title page directly behind the page on which this exercise appears.__**

__**“As environmentalism gradually enters the consciousness of social policy, and vice versa it is becoming clear that the time horizons of these two subjects need to converge.”**__
 * __Directly quote a full sentence from the book that is related to your societal category here:__

__**Cahill, M. and Fitzpatrick, T. (2002)**__ **Environmental Issues and Social Welfare__. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.__**

__**Using** http://catalog.gpo.gov**, locate one United States government publication relevant to your societal category at any geographic level.**__
 * __Exercise 2.4: Using United States Government Publications__**
 * __Your Total Score:___ __(Maximum: 6 points)__**

> __**announcement or other informal online information summary. These types of publications are often posted on the web in "HTML" format only.**__
 * __**The publication should include a clearly identified "title page" and the names of individual or organizational authors, such as those found within formal government agency reports, newsletters, online journals/magazines, etc. These government publications are often posted in "PDF”. Their pages frequently are numbered.**__
 * __**The publication you locate should not merely consist of a brief news**__
 * __**Do not use U.S. Census information.**__
 * __**Attach a photocopy or printout of the cover or title page of the document directly behind the page on which this exercise appears.**__
 * __**No citation is needed for this exercise.**__
 * __In one sentence, explain briefly why this publication will provide you with useful information about your societal category here:__

__**This source will provide us with information about government policies to conserve resources and quality of life.**__ __**Exercise 2.5: Using Policy Publications**__ __**Your Total Score:­­­**__**_ __(Maximum 12 points)__**
 * __A. Using CQ Researcher, find a publication that contains information relevant to your societal category at any geographic level. (6 points)__**
 * __Part A Score:__**

__**“In 1994, President Clinton issued an executive order directing all federal agencies with a public health or environmental mission to make  environmental justice an integral part of their policies and activities.” (Cooper 1998, p.1)**__ __** “Another case has made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Residents of Chester, Pa., a majority-black town in overwhelmingly white Delaware County, went to court to block construction of a waste facility in their community.” (Cooper 1998, p.2) **__ __** “Poor and minority communities are where you find children playing with lead poisoning living near polluting industries, garbage dumps, incinerators, ** petrochemical plants, freeways and highways – all the stuff that other communities reject.” (Cooper 1998, p.3) __ __**B. Using the “Contacts” section of the CQ Researcher article, find one of the organizations from the list (preferably a public policy institute), and retrieve a policy paper, working paper, policy brief, or online report from the past five years on your societal category. The “Contacts” section appears once you have opened an article. It is one of the links in the gray column at the left margin of each CQ Researcher publication. (6 points)**__ __**Part B Score:**__ **_**
 * __Using full sentences, quote no more than three sentences from the article that gives you a better understanding of your societal category here:__

__ “Burning coal releases enormous amounts of harmful pollutants into our environment, often with serious health consequences.” __ __**Exercise 2.6: Using United States Census Data**__ __**Your Total Score:**__**_ __(Maximum: 15 points)__**
 * __Quote one sentence from the publication that gives evidence of a societal problem that exists within your societal category here:__
 * __Use the “American FactFinder” on the 2000 online census report (__**__http://www.census.gov**) to locate the information for your home census area, a comparable census area, and the United States, and fill out the chart below with the required information from the 2000 online census report.**__


 * __**Fill in the top row of the table with the name of a county and the county that is comparable to the original county. Be sure to indicate the state.**__
 * __**The comparable county must be similar to your census area, which is a county, in population size. A comparable population is within 20% of the population size of the original county.**__
 * __**If you do not use the 2000 online census report, you will lose all points on this exercise.**__
 * __**Do not cite or reference this exercise.**__


 * || [County] || [Comparable County] || United States ||
 * Population || 95,745 || 98,726 || 310,367,166 ||
 * Median Age (years) || 37.4 || 38.2 || 36.7 ||
 * % White || 93.9 || 96.4 || 74.3 ||
 * % Male || 49.9 || 49.0 || 49.3 ||
 * Per Capita Income ($) || 30,127 || 18,197 || 27,466 ||
 * % Individuals Below Poverty Level || 4.4 || 13.2 || 13.2 ||
 * % Vacant Housing Units || 6.6 || 15.3 || 12.0 ||
 * % High School Graduate or Higher || 90.2 || 82.8 || 84.5 ||

__Exercise 2.7: Narrowing your societal category__ __Your Total Score:__ _ __(Maximum: 5 points)__ __Based on the research you have done in this chapter, narrow your societal category to a specific societal problem within it. Be sure to state it as a problem.__


 * __Write your specific societal problem, indicating a specific geographic location suffering from the problem here:__

__**PCBs in the Hudson River, Hudson River Valley, New York**__

__** Exercise 3.1: Researching Your Players **__ __**Your Total Score:**__ **_ __(Maximum: 30 points)__** __1.) Write the name and position of an elected government official who serves at the local, state or national level here. State the geographic location that they represent.: Vincent Leibell, Hudson Valley, 40th Senate District, New York __
 * __List three individuals, either a player or a staff person of the player, who deal with your narrowed societal problem, keeping in mind the geographic location you specified. Be sure to follow the prompts listed below.__**

__- What are you doing to reduce the amount of PCB’s in the Hudson River? __ __- How important do you think the cleanup process for the Hudson River is to the families in this area? __ __- How are you working with the DEC to clean up the Hudson River? __
 * __Write the player’s phone number and email address here (If instead of an email address you find a site that allows you to send a message to the individual, indicate this and provide a link to the site. This applies to all of 3.1): 845) 279 3773 __leibell@senate.state.ny.us
 * __Write why he/she will provide you with useful information by describing one policy he/she had worked on previously: He is the Hudson Valley’s representative on the environmental conservation committee of the senate. __
 * __Write three questions related to your specific societal problem that you could ask the player here:__

__2.) Write the name and position of a non-elected player from a governmental department here. Specify where they work by providing their geographic location. Pete Grannis, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation for New York State. __

__- How does the health of the Hudson River affect your fly fishing? __ __- How have you contributed to the cleanup of the Hudson River? __ __- How will public comments affect the five-year blueprint for the Hudson River Estuary Action Plan? __ __3.) Write the name, their position, and the non-profit organization or public interest/lobby group they work for here. The non-profit organization or public interest/lobby group may be local, state or national. William Wegner, Staff Scientist for Riverkeeper. __
 * __Write the player’s phone number and email address here: 212-627-2020 __ [|**http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/organization/board/Grannis.html**]
 * __Write why he/she will provide you with useful information by describing one policy he/she had worked on previously: He is part of the Hudson River park trust Board of Directors. He played a key role in enacting laws addressing clean water. __
 * __Write three questions related to your specific societal problem that you could ask the player here:__

__- What is the current PCB level in the Hudson River? __ __- What is the greatest point source of pollution in the Hudson River? __ __** - ** Where is the greatest PCB output to the Hudson River? __
 * __Write the player’s phone number and email address here: 100-21-RIVER __ info@riverkeeper.org
 * __Write why he/she will provide you with useful information by describing one policy he/she had worked on or one service the organization has provided previously: He is the senior researcher in a prominent environmental non-profit organization with ties to the Hudson Valley. __
 * __Write three questions related to your specific societal problem that you could ask the player here:__

__**Exercise 4.1: Gathering Information for and Determining the Purpose of a Survey**__ __**Your Total Score:**__**_ __(Maximum: 16 points)__** __** · **Write the individual’s phone number and email address here. (If instead of an email address you find a site that allows you to send a message to the individual, indicate this and provide a link to the site). 212-486-4430, __[|**http://schumer.senate.gov/new_website/contact.cfm**]
 * __ A. Select a player to be your “client,” and contact them or a member of their staff. This does not have to be a player from Exercise 3.1. Use the information you get from communicating with this person to answer the following bullets (10 points). After you receive a reply, send your contact a thank you e-mail with a carbon copy (CC) to your TA in the e-mail. __**
 * __ Part A score: __**
 * __ · __**__Name the individual you contacted, his/her organization, his/her title, and the geographic location where work: Charles Schumer, US Senate, US Senator, 757 third avenue suite 17-02 New York, NY 10017 __

__** · **Briefly describe the purpose of the survey you will be designing here, including a quote from the player that justifies why this survey will be useful: **To determine the value New York residents place on their parks.**__ __** · **Write a piece of factual information that could be gathered through your survey here: Uses of public parks by New York state residents __ __** · **Write a piece of attitudinal information that could be gathered through your survey here: How important public parks are to the residents __

__** · **Describe a type of policy the player might develop from the information gathered in your survey here: Budget for the maintenance and conservation of public parks. __

__**B. Quote the definition of the term "target population" from the //Maxwell Manual//. (2 points)**__ __**Part B score:**__**_** __**C. Identify the target population you will sample for your survey. You cannot use any single K-12 school or a university as your target population. (4 points)**__ __**Part C score:**__**___**
 * __ · __**__Place definition here: **The entire group of individuals about whom you want to gather information**__


 * Write a specific description of your target population including its geographic location and approximate size:** New York state residents 1000 people

Exercise 4.2: Choosing a Sample and Method of Contact Your Total Score:_____ (Maximum: 8 points) A. Indicate and discuss which of the three methods of contact from the //Maxwell Manual// you will use to contact your sample. (4 points) Part A score:_____ B. Identify one variable you will use to assess the degree to which your sample accurately reflects your target population. (4 points) Part B score:_____  Exercise 4.3: Determining Sample Size Your Total Score:_____ (Maximum: 15 points) A. Clearly and concisely describe the exact procedures you will use to select the sample and contact the respondents. Be detailed and list each step needed to select the sample. Be realistic. (5 points) Part A score:_____ 1. The sample must fairly represent all of New York State so it would be best to randomly contact several people in each zip code across the state. 2. Numbers to call will be selected from the white-pages of each county, two from each letter of the alphabet in every zip code. 3. The people will be called and their answers recorded. 4. Benford’s law will be employed to ensure the samples is random. B. Complete the following steps to determine your sample size and confidence interval. (4 points) Part B score:_____ · **Restate your target population and its size here:** New York State population- 19,541,453 · **Indicate the size of the sample you plan to analyze here:** 1000 people · **Indicate the approximate percentage this represents of the target population here:** .02% · **Indicate the 95% confidence interval of responses from a sample of this size here:** ± 3% C. Complete the following steps to determine your response rate and required number of contacts. (6 points) Part C score:_____  Exercise 4.4: Creating the Questions Your Total Score:_____ (Maximum: 6 points) Provide examples of two closed-choice questions for your survey. Base one question on the factual information your player identified in 4.1, and base the other on the attitudinal information your player identified in 4.1. All response categories must be shown. How many bottles on average do you recycle per week? What is your view on recycling?  Exercise 4.5: Examining News Media Treatment of Surveys Your Total Score:_____ (Maximum: 6 points) Using the ProQuest database or LexisNexis Academic database, locate a newspaper article from the last six months that presents or discusses a survey that has already been conducted on ANY subject, not necessarily the one studied in this module. The article may not be international. Attach a copy of the entire article directly behind the page on which this exercise appears.  Exercise 4.6: References Your Total Score:_____ (Maximum: 16 points) · **Start References on the next line or on the next page:** Cahill, M. and Fitzpatrick, T. (2002) __Environmental Issues and Social Welfare__. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. China Data Center (2008). “Rate of Industrial Waste Water up to the Discharge Standards”, Environemental Protection[data file]. WebCEO, LexisNexis Statistical Datasets (10/14/10) Cooper, M. H. (1998, June 19). Environmental justice. //CQ Researcher, 8.// 529-552. Retreived October 6, 2010, from CQ Researcher Online, []. Moyer, M. Sept 2010. How much is left? //Scientific American//. Vol. 303. Iss. 3; pg 74
 * **State the method here:** Phone
 * **Justify why you have chosen to use this method here using information from the //Maxwell Manual//:** Not many people would respond to an email survey and it would be too expensive and time consuming to survey face-to-face.
 * **Identify the variable here:** Benford’s law- test for last digit of phone numbers
 * **Explain why the variable you have chosen matters, and why it is important that the distribution of the variable should be similar to the target population:** A random assortment of phone number digits is a good indicator that the population we choose is random as well and does not bear any kind of evident correlations.
 * **List the steps you will follow here:**
 * **Estimate the __exact__ response rate you expect for your survey here:** 40%
 * **Justify the rate you chose here:** People in New York often have caller-ID or do not answer their phones during prime calling times.
 * **Write how many people you will have to contact in order to obtain your desired number of responses here:** 2500 people
 * **Using the formula from the text, show the calculations that you used to find how many people you will have to contact here:** Required contacts = Desired Sample size/expected response rate 1333 = 1000/.4
 * **Write the question that will gather factual information here:**
 * **Write the question that will gather attitudinal information here:**
 * **Quote at least one sentence from the article here: “**Ms Savitri said this survey did not talk about inputs in education alone but the learning outcomes as well. ‘This survey reports have influenced education policy in India.’"
 * **Using the questions under “Examining News Media Treatment of Surveys” on page 54 of the //Maxwell Manual//, evaluate how thoroughly the author reported the procedures followed for the survey here by using at least three questions in your response.**
 * The survey was conducted to evaluate how young children (3-16) in Pakistan are learning. It was carried out for the parents and the Pakistani government. The target population was rural families.
 * The participants (citizens) attended workshops to learn how to accurately gather education information. They were informed of the workshops by government officials.
 * The information will be gathered over a period of 5 years in time for the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015.
 * Prepare a list of references that includes all sources for this module.
 * Follow the APA format.
 * Include all sources used in the exercises.