PLANS FOR PAPER PRESENTATIONS IN CJ 605

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Today's discussion. I found today's frank discussion refreshing. I appreciate your candor. Formally what I am suggesting is the following. That you present your paper results to date, either on 4/27 or 5/4, with the understanding that this is a work in progress. Your presentation at this time will be graded (by moi), on criteria described below. This will count for 2/3 of the final (final currently counts for 30%). The remaining portion of the final will be a 24 hour take home final. It will focus on asking you to interpret some HLM tables that you may or may not have seen. Since this is a change to the grading scheme as presented at the beginning of the class, you should feel free to object. Call me so that we could discuss this further.

What is expected at the presentation. You will present your results to date. Your presentation will cover the following:

• Level 1 hypothesis and rationale, including some of the conceptual background from works you have read
  

• Level 2 hypothesis and rationale, including outside conceptual background.
  
• Measurement background on your key predictor (how built, what direction it goes, what the alpha is, and so on).
  
• Discussion of ANOVA results for your key predictor. If your outcome is not ZRPTDRU, then also talk about the ANOVA for your outcome. Key focus on intraclass correlation (percent between) and reliability
  
• Explanation of your modeling strategy. Did you try different types of models? Why? Go over the overall analysis plan.
  
• Review of (Level 1 and Level 2) results - a full model. Obviously you cannot review all the results in detail. But you should plan on walking the audience through one "full" model of results, whatever a "full" model means for you.
  
• What are the limitations with what you are finding?
  
• Given those limitations, what do you think your results "mean"?

Your presentation should be limited to fifteen minutes. We will allow five minutes of discussion following each paper. You should prepare either a handout so the audience can follow along, or an overhead. Whatever works best for you.

Who will be there. As described below, the bulk of these presentations will be for class members only. To date two presenters (Matt, Patrick) have expressed a desire to get feedback from other faculty. If anyone changes their mind about who they want there, please let me know at your earliest convenience.

How to prepare. I do not recommend running more and more and more models. You can review your model sequence, talk people through the types of models you ran, but you only will be able to present a couple of pages of results (the anova material, one full table, and talk us through other things you did). Please do not try to cram in too much. I am particularly interested in your thoughts about the theoretical grounding.

What I will be grading you on. I will simply check off if you covered each of the following points above, and I will give you a grade on the clarity with which you presented your results.

Presentation Agenda. This is tentatively listed on the table below.

4/27/00	Presenter	Title
3:00-3:20	Tony Nerino	Effects of Attachment on Perceived Drug Reporting
3:20-3:40	Lillian Dote	The Effects of a Heterogeneous Police-Community Relationship on Drug Reporting
3:40- 4:00	John Schultz	Examing the Impact That Fear of Revenge Has on People's Willingness to Report Drug Activity
4:00-4:15	Break; Invite in the public for the next two
4:15 - 4:40	Patrick McConnell	Looking for Common Sense: Political Economy and Drug Reporting
4:40-5:10	Matt Hickman	Cynicism toward Police and Willingness to Report Drug Activity
5/4/00
3:00-3:20	Jackie Fitzgerald	Blind to the Obvious: Drugs? Not in My Neighborhood
3:20-3:40	Todd Anderson	Fear of Negative Events and Perceived Willingness to Report
3:40-4:00	Cheryl Irons-Guynn	TBA
4:00 - 4:20	Geo. Cronin	The impact of neighborhood attitudes towards the Police on fear, crime and drug reporting: A Four city perspective.

The Changed format for the final. On 4/27 I will put in my mailbox a sealed envelope with your name on it and the final questions. Please pick it up when you are ready and return it within 24 hours to the spot where you picked it up. You may pick them up anytime up to 5/8. Please do not keep over a weekend. Please call me when you turn yours in. You can fax in or email yours in but be sure to call and confirm receipt.