Week 3- L3 Req- Generational Survey

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Req Title	Module	Level
Generational Survey Project	4	3

For this Req, you will use pre-developed indicators for measuring civic health to survey at least 20 members of a particular generational group to determine their civic attitudes and behaviors. You will then develop a profile for your generational group.

PREPARATION

Read Keeter, S., Zukin, C., Andolina, M., Jenkins, K. (2002). The Civic and Political Health of a Nation Download The Civic and Political Health of a Nation
: A Generational Portrait to get a sense of different forms of civic engagement as well as the different generations. Keep in mind that this was written over 10 years ago.

Review CIRCLE’s Civic Engagement Quiz Links to an external site..

ACTION

Choose one of the four generational group defined by the Keeter et al. article: Matures, Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, DotNets/Millennials. Remember that the article is over 10 years old. Use the birth years as your guide, not the ages.

Survey at least 20 members of the generational group you selected using CIRCLE’s Civic Engagement Quiz found on pages 2-4 of the quiz PDF. Create a spreadsheet that shows each respondent's answer to each item in the quiz.

Classify your participants (as a whole) by type of engagement using "Typology of Engagement Checklist" on page 5 of the quiz PDF. For each question, put the number of interviewees who responded “Yes” in the “Yes” column. For example, if you interviewed 25 Baby Boomers and 18 of them answered “Yes” to the question “Have you given money to a candidate, political party, or organization that supported candidates?”, then you would put an 18 in the “Yes” column next to that question.

Using text, images, charts, and graphs, create a one-page profile of your generational group based on your survey results.

REFLECTION

What patterns did you uncover? What meaning can you make from those patterns?
What surprises did you uncover? Explain.
In what way did your findings confirm what you read in the Keeter et al. article?
In what way did your findings deviate from what you read in the Keeter et al. article?

NOTE ON SUBMISSION: Each student must submit the following: spreadsheet of respondent's answer to each item in the quiz, a Typology of Engagement Checklist, a one-page generation profile, and responses to the four Reflection questions. Try to include as many of these on the same document as you can.

RESOURCES

Title	Keeter, S., Zukin, C., Andolina, M., Jenkins, K. (2002). The Civic and Political Health of a Nation: A Generational Portrait. CIRCLE
URL	http://www.civicyouth.org/research/products/Civic_Political_Health.pdf
Annotation	This article describes a study of the civic and political behavior of the American public, with a special focus on youth ages 15 to 25. Using an extensive national telephone survey of 3,246 respondents, it describes what citizens are doing and how often they are doing it. It looks at a panorama of 19 core activities — ranging from voting to volunteering to signing petitions — and at many other political attitudes and behaviors. It will give you an understanding of different forms of civic and political activities and of the different generational groups.

Title	CIRCLE Civic Engagement Quiz
URL	http://www.civicyouth.org/PopUps/Final_Civic_Inds_Quiz_2006.pdf
Annotation	This user-friendly quiz will help you to measure civic engagement for the generational group that you choose to survey. The behaviors are organized across three categories: civic, electoral, and political voice. It will also help you to analyze your results.

Title	Civic Engagement of Millennials in Florida
URL	http://ncoc.net/Civic-Engagement-of-Millennials-in-Florida
Annotation	This Web page discusses the civic engagement of Millennials in Florida based on the 2011 Florida Civic Health Index. In addition to a brief narrative, it provides three charts to help you understand their (dis)engagement and perhaps give you some ideas for your one-page profile.

RUBRIC

	No credit	Below expectations	Meets expectations
Survey Spreadsheet	The student did not provide evidence of conducting a survey AND/OR the student surveyed 10 or fewer individuals.	The student provided evidence that s/he surveyed less than 20 members of a generational group using CIRCLE’s Civic Engagement Quiz by providing a spreadsheet that shows responses to each question by individual respondent. AND/OR the student provided a spreadsheet that is not organized by individual respondent.	The student provided evidence that s/he surveyed at least 20 members of a generational group using CIRCLE’s Civic Engagement Quiz by providing a spreadsheet that shows responses to each question by individual respondent.
Typology	The student did not complete the Typology of Engagement Checklist.	The student incorrectly completed the Typology of Engagement Checklist.	The student correctly completed the Typology of Engagement Checklist.
Profile	The student’s profile is unclear AND lacking in meaningful detail and/or analysis.	The student created an adequate profile for the generational group s/he selected that is lacking in creativity or clarity.	The student created a profile for the generational group s/he selected that creatively uses text, images, charts, and/or graphs to clearly illustrate his/her findings.
Reflection	The student did not complete the Reflection section.	The student only completed two of the four Reflection prompts AND/OR the student wrote brief and incomplete responses to the Reflection prompts.	The student wrote thoughtful responses to all four Reflection prompts.

Week 3- L3 Req- Generational Survey

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