Module 14

 

WEEK FOURTEEN / Week of April 19

 

We’re in the home stretch. Please…

 

1) Conduct your survey.

 

2) While waiting for your survey results, revise your sections 1, 2 and 3 of your research project write-up. These are the Intro/Background, Review of the Literature, and Method sections.

 

3) Upon receipt of your survey results, complete section 4, Results. Note that this section asks you to graphically display your results… you must do this in a way that allows your reader to see both the questions and graphical depictions of results for each question.

 

4) Write DRAFTS of sections 5, 6 and 7.

 

5) Send me your availability for our final presentations (which will take place live via Zoom). Once we have a day and time scheduled for this, you will invite your contacts at your Community Partner organization, and any other supporters you met along the way, to dial in to your Zoom presentation. The final presentation will be an opportunity for you to share your research, including graphical results. Plan on a presentation of 10-12 minutes plus Q&A. 

 

Presentation day/time options are as below… please advise me of your available for EACH of the listed options… don't just tell me which is best:

 

Monday, April 26 1:00 pm

Monday, April 26 2:00 pm

Monday, April 26 6:00 pm

Monday, April 26 7:00 pm

Monday, April 26 8:00 pm

 

Tuesday, April 27 12:30 pm

Tuesday, April 27 6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, April 28 4:00 pm

 

Thursday, April 29 2:00 pm

Thursday, April 29 3:00 pm

Thursday, April 29 4:00 pm

Thursday, April 29 5:00 pm

Thursday, April 29 6:00 pm

Module 13

 

Week 13 / Week of April 12

 

Taxing and spending… Chapter 12. In addition to completing Blog #17, your final chapter-related blog post, please be sure to send me your revised survey EXACTLY AS YOU PLAN TO ADMINISTER IT, along with a detailed description of EXACTLY HOW you plan to administer it. You will need to administer your survey no later than Sunday of this week if you hope to complete the assignment by the end of the semester.

 

·     Blog entry #17: Read and reflect on Chapter 12, Taxing & Spending. 

·     Do some research online and find 4 different state or local taxes that are levied on taxpayers who live in your neighborhood. They should be 4 different kinds of taxes, such as sales tax, tobacco tax, hotel tax and property tax. 

·     Summarize the tax rates a person who lives in your neighborhood is subject to paying with regard to each of the 4 kinds of taxes, and how these compare to the rates paid by a person who lives in a nearby city. For example, sales tax in my city of East Palo Alto is 9.75%. The sales tax rate in adjacent Palo Alto is 9.0%.

·     Are there ways an individual can avoid paying these taxes? 

·     Does everyone pay the taxes equally? 

·     Are they regressive or progressive? Why might local tax rates vary within a county?

·     Use concepts from the chapter to make your answers well-informed.

 

Module 12

 

Week 12 / Week of April 5

 

Budgets and service delivery. Public administration. Chapter 8. Survey!

 

You’re in the home stretch everyone… just two more chapters to read, your research project to complete, and a final. This week, please read chapter 8 on Budgeting and Service Delivery and respond to the Blog #16 prompt below. 

 

·     Blog entry #16: It can be said that a budget is a statement of values. What values underlie the way your CP gets and spends its money or resources? Which Hallmarks, if any, are expressed in the way your CP manages its budgeting and service delivery? If it’s helpful, relate this concept to your own personal experience – in what ways does your own personal budget of time and/or money reflect your values?

 

You’re also ready to prepare a draft of your survey. Just like you did in your Research Methods class, please prepare a full and complete draft of the survey exactly as you plan to use when you conduct it. That means your questions should be in exactly the words you plan to use, the format you plan to use, the order you plan to use, and laid out on the page with whatever introductory statements you plan to use. You may refer to your Methods project to remind yourself of this final format. If you did not take a Research Methods class, please let me know so we can walk through this together in more detail. Then please send me your survey by email for review. If you have not yet completed your “Method” section draft, you’ll need complete this and send it to me as well. Do not conduct your survey until I have approved both your survey instrument and your proposed method.