A. Yes
B. No
2. If you come to the U.S. illegally as a child, should you be able to become a citizen?
A. Yes
B. No
3. If an illegal minor has good moral character and goes to college, should they be given a pathway to citizenship?
A. Yes
B. No
4. Who would you most likely give citizenship to?
A. An illegal immigrant with an American college diploma who displays "good moral character"
B. An illegal immigrant with an American high school diploma who displays "good moral character"
C. An illegal immigrant with no degree who displays "good moral character"
D. None
E. All
Method
In order to achieve randomness and an accurate sample, the poll was conducted during lunch and in between periods. To keep from only focusing on certain groups, interviews were done in the various areas of the campus including students as they were leaving early. Interviews were also conducted during different times of the day.
Margin of Error
Possible margins of error would include interviewing students as they are leaving campus or on there way to lunch or another class. Students may not give accurate answers based on these reasons because they may feel rushed. They may have a job to get to, be in a hurry to have lunch, or of course feel rushed knowing they have to be on class on time. Moreover, errors could have been made when analying/crunching the data.
---Total of each group---
| Female | 46 |
| Male | 54 |
| Sports | 40 |
| No Sports | 60 |
| Honors | 45 |
| General | 55 |
| 9th | 13 |
| 10th | 30 |
| 11th | 38 |
| 12th | 19 |
| employed | 41 |
| Non employed | 59 |
| Clubs | 75 |
| No Clubs | 25 |
QUESTION 1
A. Yes
B. No
Not many people have heard of the Dream Act due to insufficient background knowledge. For instance students in lower grade levels may have not taken classes that cover this subject.
A reason that more females have heard of this act may be due to females having more concern for issues like immigration.
Students that are not involved in sports are more likely to have heard of this act due to having more time for other extra curricular activities such as studying.
Honors students are more likely to have heard of this act due to their classes being upper level and how those classes go into more detail on issues like these.
Higher grade levels have a better chance of having heard of this act due to participating in a greater number of classes opposed to a younger student. The reason why the 9th and 11th graders have a greater number of students may be due to a change in curriculum or a margin of error on the part of the pollsters.
Employed students may have heard of this act because of their encounters with co-workers.
Students that participate in clubs are generally more active and with this comes more activity in school too.
Question 2
2. If you come to the U.S. illegally as a child, should you be able to become a citizen?A. Yes
B. No
A reason why students would favor yes for this question is because they place themselves in an immigrants shoes with the use of "you" in the question.
Females are generally more sympathetic and understanding to issues like these.
Students that are not involved in sports have more time to become educated on issues like these and to learn about how a minor is innocent in this situation.
Clubs usually don't discrimante and thus "club" students tend to be more liberal
Question 3
A. Yes
B. No
Females tend to be more sympathatic and caring to minorities(due to their nuturing nature)
Sports usually tend to have all types of races and diversity
Honor students respect an immigrant who has worked hard to earn a college degree
11th grade is usually students first year of History where they learn a greater respect for immigrants who have struggled to survive in the United States
Employed students generally dont have time to research subjects such as immigration while non employed students have available free time
Clubs dont disciminate so the students in clubs don't discimante either
Question 4
A. An illegal immigrant with an American college diploma who displays "good moral character"
B. An illegal immigrant with an American high school diploma who displays "good moral character"
C. An illegal immigrant with no degree who displays "good moral character"
D. None
E. All
Students in clubs were mixed with their answers as students in no extracurricular activites were to scarce to analyze
Black Ops
I'm not surprised that the majority of students had not heard about this Act. Like we saw today in class, not even a lot of students in an AP Gov class knew what it was. I think this is because it was not really hyped up in the media at all ( I mean, from what I saw, correct me if I'm wrong). Like the abortion poll, I am kind of surprised by the other results. I honestly wasn't expecting the majority of people to be more accepting of the idea of giving illegal immigrants a "fast pass" to citizenship. I was kind of expecting more freshmen to be opposed to the idea of allowing them citizenship as they are immature, uninformed and less likely to be well aware of the situation on immigration (yes I hate freshmen).
ReplyDeleteI think maybe you guys could have done a statistic on who was white and who was hispanic (or other). It might have been good to see how these people feel about the issue since they might have a more personal attachment to the issue that could have swayed their voting.
Other than that, you guys did a great job!
It is obvious that hardly anone has heard of the Dream Act, but the majority seems to be all for it. Because the majority asked were juniors, there was a huge cleavage in employment and unemployment with most being unemployed. I am surprised to see that most were supporting the Dream Act and that grade level, sports, workng, and clubs had a huge impact on thier decisions.
ReplyDeleteI'm surised that less people in clubs haven't heard of the Dream Act. Clubs seem to talk more about programs for the less fortunate and educational topics. And I'm curious as to how juniors had heard most of the Dream Act. But it's not really any shock that most kids haven't heard of the Dream Act. It's rare to hear a program that benefits illegal aliens based off good behavior to earn citizenship.
ReplyDeleteThats pretty clever with the wording you chose for question 2. I would bet anything that if you said someone instead of you there would be different results. Im actually surprised that more men than women said c to question #4. I dont know why? Maybe because i figured with women being more sympathetic they would be more open to anyone being able to get citizenship but it was reversed on that question. Oh and the last thing i notced was that there was a huge difference just from 10th to 11th grade on question #4. it went from 10th graders who would let anyone with a diploma, into 11th graders who wanted everyone to have a college degree. i wonder why the reason for that change is?
ReplyDeleteAhhhh lovin the Black Ops!! who threw that in there? Chris lol?
I think since you guys polled a lot of 11th graders, it skews the data, making it look like they have more knowledge of the Dream Act, when they probably have about as much knowledge as the tenth graders. It’s kind of sad that not many 12th graders don’t know about the Dream Act...or that they have about the same knowledge as freshmen. Aren’t we supposed to get smarter as we get older...? In general, I don’t think a lot of people are informed on this topic.
ReplyDeleteAnd is anthem more democratic - I thought it was more conservative? And I think why people in sports are more sympathetic toward immigration is because when you play sports, you travel to other schools and other parts of Arizona, therefore you see a lot of different types of people - broadening your knowledge on immigration.
Honors students can relate to hard work, because we all generally work hard, and we are sympathetic towards an illegal immigrant who would work hard in college.
This is an interesting topic, I’ve never heard of the Dream Act so it’s interesting to see how the public views it as well. Good job guys :)
The amount of students who had not heard of the DREAM Act obviously had an enormous impact upon their answers to the questions. Perhaps providing a little context for it would have helped with students' answers to the second question.
ReplyDeleteYour explanation for the first graph regarding Question 2 is very interesting; I think it is insightful to say that the use of the word "you" in the question causes students to put themselves in the immigrants' shoes.
I wonder why sophomores and juniors had opposing viewpoints. The difference in history classes might have been a factor,as you stated, but also perhaps the fact that sophomore students have not had the opportunity to be in AP classes, where current events are discussed in depth often and with clear purpose.
The cleavage in employed students vs. non-employed students makes sense to me as well, as students who must earn money to pay for gas, insurance, etc have more respect for hard workers. Again, though, more context would have helped them understand the inevitable impact of the Act on the state's economy.
Like most of my classmates, I had little knowledge about the DREAM Act as well, so this poll was very interesting to me.
I'm not surprised so few people have heard of the Dream act, even my dad who is crazy about politics has heard of it. I feel like question 2 was somewhat pushing though, people will vote on what benefits them most, so if they were an illegal child of course they would vote yes. I think if you didn't use the word "you" the result may have been different. Also there were so many Juniors polled, it probably should have been more equally split up. Overall it was really good, I loved how there was a graph to show how each detailed was related, It made comparisons easy.
ReplyDeleteYour team has very visually appealing graphs,as well as them being easy to comprehend and the way you placed the question right along side the graph made it a quick read, which most groups did not do. All in all I am very impressed with the set up. Good job boys.
ReplyDeleteI, though being part of the percentage to not know of the Dream Act prior to Max's explanation in class, am suprised at the number of seniors unaware. Not much else on your graph suprised me and your own analysis of each demographic, short and to the point, made everything very clear. I agree in part with Jake's comment that question two pushed a tad, but not in a detrimental way.
This seems to be a pretty well-developed poll. The graphs are also pretty cool to look at. Anyways, the most interesting connection that I found was that although most people have never heard of the dream act (as indicated by the results of question 1), most people still support the general idea of how the dream act would work. I think that if the dream act is more broadly advertised in American politcs then it should be fairly easy to pass such a law. I personally think this might increase illegal immigration because parents living in other nations would see a great opportunity to provide their children with citizenship in a much simpler and faster fashion than the current method.
ReplyDeleteA very good topic considering the state that we live in, as it's no secret that immigration is huge within Arizona. The questions are well made, asking people if they know what the DREAM act is, something that even I had no idea about until Ms. Duqes told us, and I'm not really surprised about the amount of people who had no idea what it was about, and it makes me feel slightly less retarded. The graphs are great, and accurately depict the results for each demographic that answered. Very well done.
ReplyDeleteThe Dream Act must have been difficult to poll on, especially since only AP Gov Rotation A students have been taught that in the whole school and I saw that you noted the flaw, and my group actually came up with a solution for that. I am not sure if you saw my groups poll, but we explained what the 14th Amendment was and explained how illegal immigrants help the U.S. economy and maybe you guys should have done the same by describing the Dream Act unbiasedly. Otherwise, your poll was based on a very interesting subject, and you guys were unfortunate to poll students who did not know what the Dream Act is. This flaw is probably what skewed your data the most, but I also agree with Carissa, you guys had a tendency of asking more juniors than the other classes, which might have skewed the results even more.
ReplyDeleteHey guys- Well it doesn't surprise me that there was an overwhelming amount of people who did not know what the Dream Act was, especially after Duquette asked our AP class. Because of this, it must have been difficult to poll on this and get legitimate results. But you guys did a great job with your questions and they are very easy to understand and answer. Its weird that the juniors and sophomores differ so greatly but its probably because of their history class, like you said. Question two may have been a bit of a push, as others have said above, but I don't think it affected the results of your poll that greatly. Your graphs are really cool looking so woohoo! Rock on!
ReplyDeleteIt does not surprise me that most of the students polled have not heard of the Dream Act. It is obvious that most of the students are all for the Dream Act as most of them felt that children who were illegal immigrants were brought to the United States should be allowed opportunity. It seems that such things as clubs, jobs, studying played a huge role the decisions that were made by the students that were polled. Your results seemed to tie together very well and made a lot of sense, except for when the time when the sophomores and juniors responses differed greatly, but it being because of their history class makes a lot sense. You guys did a good job! I find your topic to be very interesting and something that is worth knowing.
ReplyDeleteI'd say Ms. Duquette's asking us all if WE had heard of the Dream Act was pretty representative of the school then, since you reported most people hadn't heard of it. Personally, I hadn't either. However, I think it's interesting that a lot of people were willing to support such a motion (though they didn't have a name for it), which makes me wonder how many political acts and policies don't get passed because people just don't know the wording for it. Anyway, it was an interesting topic, one I wouldn't have thought to poll on, and so your results were equally intriguing. In general, they were good questions, and though the results may have been slightly skewed, I still think they are valuable. Good job!
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ReplyDeleteI for one had heard of nothing related to this act until you mentioned it in class. I find it quite interesting that this piece of legislation is being considered right now. I also enjoyed the opportunity to see contrasting viewpoints in polling results since both this and SB1070 were polled. I find it surprising that the vast majority of juniors supported it, yet a much smaller margin of seniors supported the act. I think it is excellent that more attention is being brought to this currently widely unknown piece of legislation.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't surprise me that not many people have heard of the DREAM Act. As Rick mentioned, even most of our class had never heard of it, including myself. It must have been difficult conducting this because people didn't even know what the main topic of it was. Also, I think that because a majority of people that you asked were sophomores and juniors, that may have skewed your data a little bit. But nice job guys.
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