scholarly journals Experiential Learning Revisited: Lessons from a Student-Led Public Opinion Polling Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-546
Author(s):  
Sara R. Rinfret ◽  
Justin Angle ◽  
Samuel Scott ◽  
Daisy Ward ◽  
Kaixuan Yang ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTFor decades, political and private polling operations have informed about the public’s perceptions regarding a range of topics. In particular, universities (e.g., Marist and Quinnipiac) provide noteworthy research to inform and predict the outcomes of US elections. Yet, what role do our classrooms play in advancing the public opinion polling skills of our students? This article uses experiential learning as a descriptive framework to illustrate how a yearlong, immersive, and student-led public opinion polling experience, the Big Sky Poll, advances students’ social-science and data-fluency skills. Our findings suggest important insights into the future of public opinion polling from the vantage point of a rural Western state, which can be replicated in other academic institutions.

1998 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Celinda Lake ◽  
Jennifer Sosin

wisdom ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Hovhannes Hovhannisyan ◽  
Hasmik Hovhannisyan ◽  
Astghik Petrosyan

The research study was conducted in two stages, in 2015 and 2016 from March 15 to April 15 utilizing the method of formalized interview.  Each phase of the survey involved 560 Yerevan residents. As the results of the research come to prove, the mosaic of the public perception and the psychological reflection of the phenomenon of the Armenian Genocide is very sophisticated. The moods of regret, pain, depression, declining moods, complaint, wrath, revenge, hope and optimistic views for future are intertwined and bound together. These moods and feelings appear next to each other and quickly alternating.According to the results of both 2015 and 2016 surveys the moods of overcoming pain, faith and hope, optimistic attitude towards the future (91.4%) are dominant over complaint, anger, revenge, struggle for compensation (85.5%) and regret, pain, depression, declining moods (69.6 %).The indicators of the moods and feelings of the first and second groups are generally stable. In this connection both studies in 2015 and 2016 recorded similar results. However, the indicators of the following moods decreased from 76.2% to 69.6%: regret, pain, depression, declining moods, the manifestations of the complex of a victim. The indicator of more intense expression of such moods dropped from 47.2% to 35.6%.The authors explain such change by the influence of three internal and external political factor groups.


Author(s):  
Laura Catalina Timiras

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the evolution of the market research and public opinion polling business in the EU countries in recent years (after 2010). Using the Turnover or gross premiums written indicator, it was found that the analyzed business experienced an upward trend over the period 2010-2015, but not for all EU countries, some of them experiencing decreasing of the indicator. At the same time, parallel with the increase of the Turnover or gross premiums written at the level of the EU, there was a slight decrease of the number of enterprises and number of persons employed in the market research and the public polling activity, a decrease which was more pronounced at the level of the old EU Member States. The paper also seeks to highlight the link between the macroeconomic outcomes and market size of market research and public opinion polling across EU countries, noting the existence of a direct and strong relationship between Gross domestic product and Turnover or gross premiums Written both at EU-28 level and by categories of old and new member states. The analysis was based on official statistical data provided by Eurostat.


Res Publica ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 475-189
Author(s):  
Henri Breny

The technical changes in the local-elections law that were recently implemented have only had a negligible effect on the electoral results.  As a matter of fact they did not bring about any change in the two major evils that beset local elections in Belgium. These are indeed dominated by a particular system (Imperiali) of allocation of seats that systematically deviates from proportional representation and is heavily resented as such by a considerable part of the public opinion. The recent modifications allow a voting method (the multiple vote) that wilt - from now on and increasingly so in the future - give a possibility to particular factions that are slightly stronger within a certain party to conquer a far more than proportional share of the party seats andmight well come close to the total number of seats allocated to a certain party. It is indeed the democratic nature of the electoral system in Belgium that is at stake here.


2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 2030-2033
Author(s):  
De Zhi An ◽  
Yun Ke

Public opinion research is a new internet discipline of social science and natural science. As a hot spot of public opinion research, the research on the public opinion on the Internet has attracted much attention. By analyzing the status of the research on the public opinion on the Internet in China, this paper establishes the basic framework of the research on the public opinion on the Internet. Then some key technology issues are researched in detail. Based on the method and key technology, the paper introduces the design and implement about the platform of Internet Public Sentiment. This paper is expected to have the value to apply the Internet public sentiment analysis.


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Walzer-Moskovic

During the last years, Spain pased thrugh a gradual and persistent deterioration of TV´s contents. The public TV (RTVE) reform, the creation of an Autroregulation Commission in November 2004 and the growth of the discontent shown by certain sectors of the public opinion, conform a new panorama and are an excellent opportunity for the future of our television, our society, our education and our culture. Those who have struggled many years for a television serving people´s education, have now not only the opportunity to claim an educational TV in a general sense, but an educational TV in a strict sense. En los últimos años se ha vivido en España un proceso gradual, constante y persistente de deterioro de los contenidos televisivos. La oferta programática se ha transformado en una suerte de espejo maléfico en el que las cadenas se han observado entre sí para copiarse. El resultado ha sido el esperable: en cualquiera de ellas puede verse más de lo mismo, aunque con leves variaciones respecto de los modelos originariamente calcados. Los espectadores han respondido de forma diversa a este estado de cosas: a veces con complacencia y a veces alimentando en secreto el anhelo de que esa televisión autorreferencial y enamorada de sí misma, acabe estrellándose –como Narciso– contra su propia imagen. La Ley de Reforma de la Televisión Pública Estatal (RTVE), la creación de una Comisión Mixta de Autorregulación de Contenidos Televisivos e Infancia hacia finales de 2004 y el crecimiento del malestar manifestado por ciertos sectores de la opinión pública, contribuyen a dibujar un panorama que deja ver una oportunidad magnífica para el futuro de nuestra televisión, de nuestra sociedad, nuestra educación y nuestra cultura. Quienes desde hace años bregan por una televisión de calidad al servicio de la ciudadanía y de la educación no pueden silenciarse ahora. Es que si el estado paupérrimo de los contenidos, la procacidad y el griterío reinantes hacían reclamar una televisión con unos contenidos que sean pro-educativos, en términos generales, ahora parece que llega el momento propicio para dar un paso más y pensar en una televisión educativa en términos estrictos. Si bien es cierto que aun queda mucho por hacer y que los mercaderes no desean ceder ni un ápice en lo que ellos consideran que es la esencia de su negocio; si bien es cierto que para grandes sectores asociar lo televisivo con lo educativo parece un despropósito, es necesario empezar a hablar de una televisión educativa en términos específicos. En un contexto social en el que lo educativo parece estar afectado por el descrédito y el desprestigio, las televisiones privadas se aferran con uñas y dientes a su parcela de negocio. Sin embargo, conociendo las variables que están en juego, es imprescindible entender que este momento es histórico y de oportunidad. En este trabajo se pretende exponer algunas reflexiones que tienen la vocación de situar ejes que permitan pensar en una televisión que no se encastille en una defensa sistemática de la exclusión de lo educativo y que restituya, aunque sea en una medida modesta, la misión educativa de las industrias culturales y de la televisión en particular. Para ello será necesario transitar, también, por los nuevos derroteros de lo educativo en nuestras sociedades.


2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Reig ◽  
Ramona Schoder

Prediction markets are viewed as the most accurate instrument for collective forecasts. However, empirical studies, mostly based on political elections, deliver mixed results. An experimental study was conducted to avoid certain biases and problems and to better control conditions of eliciting information from individuals. One typical problem is for example comparing prediction markets that focus on judging the public opinion in the future with polls asking for individual election preferences at a certain point of time. Therefore, our study compared forecast accuracy between prediction markets and a simple survey for the same forecasting item.The results showed roughly the same accuracy for all employed methods with the survey delivering slightly better results at lower costs, which was surprising. The experiments demonstrated also that it is possible to gain highly accurate forecasts with a relatively small number of participants (6-17) taking part continuously.


1952 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
W. Phillips Davison

This paper, based upon a talk delivered at the 1951 AEJ convention, structures the field of psychological warfare research and suggests ways in which journalism may fit into the program. Mr. Davison, formerly editor of the Public Opinion Quarterly, is a member of the Rand Corporation's social science staff. *


2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven D. Brown ◽  
James Delodder

Abstract: This research report re-examines the claim made by the National Post newspaper just prior to the 2000 Canadian election that Canadians are split virtually down the middle on the merits of creationism versus evolution. Based on new data collected for the purpose, the authors argue that the original research likely overestimates the proportion of the population subscribing to creationist views. Moreover, they suggest that the nature of the question asked in the original research accounts for this overestimation. Finally, they argue that the increasing use of public polls for advocacy as well as descriptive purposes makes it imperative that the media and the public become more sophisticated in their appreciation of how the medium can affect the message. Résumé : Ce rapport de recherche examine à nouveau l'affirmation faite par le quotidien National Post juste avant les élections canadiennes de l'an 2000, à savoir que la moitié des Canadien-ne-s croient au créationnisme, l'autre moitié croyant à l'évolutionnisme. Les auteurs, se fondant sur des données recueillies pour vérifier cette affirmation, soutiennent que la recherche originale surestime la proportion de la population croyant au créationnisme. En outre, ils suggèrent que cette surestimation s'explique par la manière dont on a formulé la question dans la recherche originale. Finalement, les auteurs soutiennent que l'utilisation croissante de sondages pour la promotion de causes de même que pour des buts de description souligne l'importance de faire en sorte que les médias et le public aient une meilleure compréhension de l'impact des médias sur les messages communiqués par ces derniers.


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