[Add] Political Efficacy

[JamesPHoughton]

Min, Seong-Jae. 2007. “Online vs. Face-to-Face Deliberation: Effects on Civic Engagement.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: JCMC 12 (4): 1369–87.

The political efficacy scale was adapted from the scale that has been used for the American National Election Studies in order to address the school issue (for the original ANES efficacy items, see Niemi, Craig, & Mattei, 1991). The efficacy scale asks three questions concerning the participants’ political potency and feeling of understanding concerning school issues. These three items are: ‘‘I think that I am better informed about school issues than other students,’’ ‘‘I feel I have a pretty good understanding of the important issues facing my school,’’ and ‘‘I consider myself well qualified to participate in school affairs.’’ The items were measured on a 7-point Likert scale.

Political Efficacy Scale ‘‘I think that I am better informed about school issues than other students.’’ 1234567 Strongly Disagree Disagree Slightly Disagree Not Sure / Don’t know Slightly Agree Agree Strongly Agree ‘‘I feel I have a pretty good understanding of the important issues facing my school.’’ 1234 567 Strongly Disagree Disagree Slightly Disagree Not Sure / Don’t know Slightly Agree Agree Strongly Agree ‘‘I consider myself well qualified to participate in school affairs.’’ 1234 567 Strongly Disagree Disagree Slightly Disagree Not Sure / Don’t know Slightly Agree Agree Strongly Agree

Survey Title

"Super Special Survey" <- note, this is just a placeholder name - replace it with the name of the actual survey.

Survey Source

Survey Overview

Aggregation/scoring function

Tasks

• Create a new folder in surveys w/ descriptive, easy-to-read name superSpecialSurvey/
• Create SurveyJS .json file (e.g. superSpecialSurvey/superSpecialSurvey.json)
  • Change the default completion page to a blank page ("showCompletedPage": false)
• Create a .bib file citing your references for the survey (always: superSpecialSurvey/references.bib)
• Create file with function to aggregate survey data (e.g. superSpecialSurvey.score.js)
• Create a cypress test of the survey (e.g. superSpecialSurvey.cy.jsx)
  • Include a line to take a screenshot at the end of every page
• Create a readme markdown file to document (always: superSpecialSurvey/README.md)
  • Include relevant screenshots
• Update the package minor version
• Rebuild the package using npm run build to update SHAs
• Create PR and link to this issue

[JamesPHoughton]

Also want to ask about how much people believe they have power to influence policy regarding the issue.