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ABSTRACT
This manuscript explains a civic engagement activity and presents assessment data on the activity.
Notes
1. Questions in Academic Engagement Index are replicated from the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ Bringing Theory to Practice Program “Toolkit Assessment Survey,” http://www.aacu.org/bringing_theory/documents/FacultyToolkit.docxs. The index is the sum of responses and ranges from 10 to 50. For items in the index, see Appendix C.
2. Questions 1–17 are from the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Bringing Theory to Practice Program “Toolkit Assessment Survey,” http://www.aacu.org/bringing_theory/documents/FacultyToolkit.docx.
3. The first two “trust” questions are from the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey (National Opinion Research Center, Citation2003). The second two are from the Monitoring the Future project as employed in Rahn and Transue (Citation1998).
4. Questions 22–27 are adapted from Verba, Lehman Schlozman, Brady, & Nie the American Citizen Participation Study (Citation1990), archived at Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu).
5. Question 39 is replicated from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey (http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu).
6. Questions 40–47 are from the UCLA Cooperative Institutional Research Program's Freshman Survey. This survey is administered nationally and annually to college freshman (http://www.heri.ucla.edu/cirpoverview.php).
7. Item adapted from the Civic Engagement Questionnaire (Keeter, Zukin, Andolina & Jenkins, Citation2002).