Counting on Higher Education: Teaching and Assessing Knowledge and Participation in the 2020 Census.

Autor: Whaley, Carah Ong, Pastor, Dena, Goldberg, Abraham
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Zdroj: Journal of Higher Education Outreach & Engagement; 2024, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p27-43, 17p
Abstrakt: Mandated under Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, the decennial census determines the distribution of power and resources based upon population counts. College students are a hard-to-count population with limited knowledge about why the census matters and how to complete it. Politics and the global health pandemic made the 2020 Census exceptionally challenging. A university's center for civic engagement and students in a political science class collaborated with local, state, and national partners to develop and implement a campuswide 2020 Census Education and Engagement Program. Assessments of 2020 Census knowledge were administered to almost 2,000 students on a required university-wide Assessment Day. Subsequent data collection indicated knowledge about the 2020 Census is malleable, as evidenced by sizable gains over time as well as a positive relationship between census completion and participation in the 2020 Census Education and Engagement Program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index