@@======**Political Courage Test Guide**======@@

The **Political Courage Test (PCT)** is a test of candidates' willingness to tell citizens their positions on the issues. To learn more about what the Political Courage Test is, [[PCTAbout Click Here]].

**===Election Coverage Overview:===**
**[[PCTProcessesOverview Overview of Candidate Coverage]]**
**[[PCTCandidateCoverage PCT Department Candidate Coverage]]**

The two distinct parts that make up the Political Courage Test process include PCT Creation and PCT Administration:

<<**===PCT Creation:===**
**[[PCTCreationOverview PCT Creation Overview]]**
[[PCTQuestionWriting PCT Question Writing Guidelines]]
[[NationalPCTGuide National Political Courage Test Creation]]
[[StatePCTGuide State Political Courage Tests Creation]]
[[PCTApprovalProcess Approval Process, Test Finalization & Documentation]]
[[PCTCodingGuide Coding the PCT Into the Database]]

**===PCT Administration:===**
**[[PCTPlanning Planning & Responsibilities]]**
[[PCTStaffing Roles & Responsibilities]]
[[PCTScheduling PCT Scheduling]]

**[[PCTAdministrator Candidate Communications]]**
[[BulkCandidateContacts Bulk Mail & Email Communications]]
[[CandidatePhoneCommunications Candidate Phone Communications]]
[[CandidateEmailCommunications Candidate Individual Email Communications]]
[[CandidateFights Candidate Fights]]

**[[PCTProcessing PCT Processing & Results]]**
[[ExceptionCandidates Exception Candidates]]
[[NPATMessages NPAT Messages AND NPAT Status]]
[[PressReports Press Reports, Statistics, & Media Announcements]]
<<>>**===Quick References:===**

**Category Project Links:**
1. [[CategoryPolicies Category Policies]]
2. [[Categories1 Alphabetical List]]
3. [[CategoryTree Category Tree]]
4. [[http://wiki.votesmart.org/PoprocksInstruction Historical Speech Categorization]]
5. [[IdiomsandExamples Idioms and Examples]]

**SQL:**
1. [[UsefulResearchQueries SQL at PVS]]
2. [[http://wiki.votesmart.org/ResearchSQLTutorial Vote Smart SQL Tutorial]]
3. [[http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp Third Party Tutorial]]
4. [[http://wiki.votesmart.org/PvsadminSchema Database Schema]]
5. [[ResearchSQLQueries Useful Queries]]

**Other Helpful Links**
1. [[ResearchCandidateCoverage Research Department Candidate Coverage]]
2. [[VoteEasyTool VoteEasy]]
3. [[FormattingDatainExcel Excel Import Data Tips]]
4. [[https://help.libreoffice.org/Main_Page Libre Office Help]]
5. [[https://support.google.com/a/answer/1626902?hl=en Creating and Sharing a Calendar]]>>