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Share Your Perspective in New Ethics Bowl Study

Earlier this week I spoke with John Haugland, the student credited with bringing Ethics Bowl to South Texas College. He’s working on a capstone project studying Ethics Bowl – why new recruits are attracted to it and ways existing Bowlers have benefited.

Context and links to the surveys are below. Please take a few minutes and complete whichever applies to you! There are two for high schoolers and two for college Bowlers. And thanks to John for taking the time – empirical info on how Ethics Bowl can better attract new recruits and tout benefits cited by veteran participants is definitely welcome. Plus, John agreed to provide an analysis of the results here at EthicsBowl.org when the project is complete. Looking forward to sharing soon, and special thanks to John’s faculty advisor, Sociology professor Jenny Chamberlain!

From Student John Haugland: 

Hello,

I am a South Texas College student working on an Ethics Bowl research project, consisting of two surveys, with results due November 13th.

The first is for students who are not currently participating in Ethics Bowl. It attempts to assess their interest in participation in Ethics Bowl. Our Informed Consent statement is at the top of the survey: Interest in Participation Survey for High School Students or for College Students.

The second is for anyone – including students, moderators, coaches, and judges – who HAS participated in Ethics Bowl, and attempts to assess the improvement of their skills and knowledge in different areas due to participation in Ethics Bowl. Our Informed Consent Statement is at the top of the survey: Assessing Improvement Survey for High School Students or for College Students.

We plan to use these surveys to strengthen the available data about Ethics Bowl. If you would like a copy of the results, or have any further questions, please contact me via email [email Matt via contact info on Resources page and he’ll connect you].

Thank you very much for your time,

John G. Haugland

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Will Survey for Pizza

Does ethically dubious pizza taste better?

We’ve witnessed the benefits of Ethics Bowl in others. We’ve experienced them firsthand. But anecdote is no substitute for cold, hard data, especially in the eyes of school administrators, budget officers and grant committees.

Few (if any) large-scale Ethics Bowl studies exist. But our friends at UNC’s Parr Center are fixing that, and they’re maximizing participation with the promise of guaranteed pizza!

If you’re a high school Ethics Bowl coach or participant, take one 10-minute survey next month, then another in February. You don’t even have to be on an Ethics Bowl team. You just have to be a student at a school that participates. That’s it. 20 minutes of painless surveying, and unless I’m mistaken, there’s no requirement that the pizza be healthy, organic, or locally-sourced!

The full details are available here. But the upshot comes in the final paragraph.

“If you are interested in participating or would like more information, please complete this short form or send an email to Study Coordinator Michael Vazquez. We are happy to correspond via email or to arrange a Zoom meeting to discuss any aspect of your participation in further detail. It is important that we have involvement from both students involved with NHSEB and students not involved with NHSEB. So, we would greatly appreciate your help recruiting fellow educators or coaches at your school to get involved with the study. Click here to download a flier that you can share with your colleagues.”

Parr, thank you for taking the initiative, and kudos for making this easy, painless and yummy. Hopefully some portion of the results will be shared with the broader Ethics Bowl community. And on behalf of hungry teenagers everywhere, thanks for the pizza!