14
Correlations between simulation participation grades, course grades and attendance revealed no
meaningful distinctions between white and African-American students, suggesting that attendance was
an equally strong driving force in determining simulation grades and course grades for all students.
15
Race does show up as statistically significant if the simulation participation variable is eliminated
from the model; no alternative specifications could make sex or first year status show significance
within the model.
16
Very preliminary analysis of my data suggests that the difference in self-perceived skills is quite
small among whites, but is dramatic among African-Americans. African-American men are
significantly more likely to rate themselves highly in political skills than are African-American women;
this difference persists across the pretests and posttests, and across the different categories of political
skills.
Convention