Partner Organization for Spring 2012
New
Brunswick Tomorrow
Partner Organizations
for Spring 2011
American
Conference on Diversity
Learning
to End Hunger Initiative
Making it Possible to
End Homelessness
New Jersey After 3
Partner Organizations
Spring 2010
American
Conference on Diversity
New Jersey Farm
to School
New Jersey PIRG
St. Peter's University Hospital
ETHICS in Survey Research
One of my Research Tutorial students in 2007 developed this list of
sites covering Ethics Issues
The Stanford Prison
Experiment
American
Psychogical Association
American
Anthropological Association
FEDERAL
POLICY ON RESEARCH MISCONDUCT
US
Department of Health and Human Services
Wikipedia
on Scientific Misconduct
Some
History of Misconduct Investigations
Health
& Humans Services Factsheet on Integrity
Additional Required Readings
(Note all required items are linked on our Sakai site)
Not Required, but interesting
Putnam, Bowling Alone
Delli Carpini and Keeter, What
should be learned through service learning? (JSTOR)
Roades, How
Civic Engagement is Reframing Liberal Education (Not required)
January 25
PBS, How
to Analyze a Poll
January 27
Rutgers
Human Subjects Office; Human Subjects Training (Note, training is
on SAKAI)
February 1
American National
Election Studies (ANES)
ANES
Questions asked over the years
ANES 2000-2004 Panel Study Information
February 22
Groves, et al.
Keeter, et al.
Impact of Growing Cell Phone Only
February 24
Zaller and Feldman, A
simple theory of the survey response (JSTOR)
Bishop, et al., The
nagging question about question wording (JSTOR)
TABLE
A REFERED TO IN THE BISHOP ARTICLE
March 1
Tucker, Interviewer
Effects in telephone surveys (JSTOR)
Kane & Macaulay, Interviewer
gender and gender attitudes (JSTOR)
March 8
Seltzer, Ch VIII
Traugott and Katosh, Response
validity in surveys of voting behavior
Some Survey Research Examples
Here is a monthly
newsletter from the American Association of Public Opinion Research
- AAPOR- the discusses a wide range of issues in survey research.
Some great web pages related to understand normal distributions
and their properties: A Java
Applet that shows various sampling distributions; Some material
on the Normal Distribution; and the Sampling
Distribution of the Mean. All of these are important to understand
sample size and margin of error.
An interesting problem - How DO you poll for the Iowa
Caucuses? The question of proper voter screening looms large here - how
can you determine who is a likely caucus attendee and who is not. Take
a look at this
story that deals with the question.
The
CIRP Freshman Survey - This is an ongoing Longitudinal study,
with a "trend" design - each year first year college students
around the country take this survey; the results can be compared year-to-year.
The
American National Election Studies 2000-2004 Panel - This is a longitudinal
study, using a "panel" design - the original sample drawn in
2000 was reinterviewed in 2002 and 2004.
A survey
done in my Political Psychology class in Spring 2006 - This
is an example of a "Survey-Experiment" using a "cross-sectional"
design. A sample was drawn and each (reachable) respondent was interviewed
only once. Notice the different "Versions" of various questions.
The
British Cohort Study - Beginning in 1970, chose one week and attempted
to gather data on all those born during that week, using a variety of
data sources, including surveys. The cohort has been followed over time
and surveyed from time to time.
Generally Informative Sites
|
By
the People 2004
PollingReport.Com
Zogby
Poll
Pollster.com