Focus group

This article used a focus group approach to look at the perspectives of special education directors on the RTI process throughout secondary schools. Out of eighty-five school districts, twenty public secondary schools were randomly selected within four counties in a Midwestern state. There were seventeen special education directors that participating in this study. Out of the two focus groups that were conducted, eight directors attended the first focus group while the other nine directors attended

How to Run a Focus Group * What is a focus group? A focus group is a small and structured meeting of approximately 8 – 10 people. Discussion revolves around a set of pre-determined topics to give you a set of rich qualitative information. Although focus groups take a while to set up and require a budget to run, once done, they can prove an efficient way of getting detailed information on a subject. Expect a focus group to give you a range of views from your target audience, and to find out

Focus groups are a form of group interview that make use of the communication between research participants in order to produce data. Group interviews are mostly used as a quick and easy way to collect data from several people at the same time and focus groups explicitly use group interaction as part of the method. This means that the researcher doesn’t just ask each person to respond to a question in turn, but people are encouraged to talk to one another: asking questions, exchanging stories and

methods are the focus group method, brainstorming, brainwriting and problem inventory analysis. These methods are best suitable for an organization that needs expansion in products or services First is focus group method, focus group is defined as a group of individuals providing information in a structured format. A moderator leads the group of about 8 to 14 participants through an open, in-depth discussion rather than simply asking questions to solicit participants’ responses. The group is stimulated

‘On the Ball’ Fitball: Focus Group Study for Initial Concept Testing Niveditha Kumar University of Southern California ‘On the Ball’ Fitball: Focus Group Study for Initial Concept Testing ‘On The Ball’ is a new brand of exercise ball that is soon to be launched in the market. The product’s unique selling proposition (USP) claim is that it is the first ever brand to have 30 unique exercises printed on the ball. The product was developed after finding a distinctive gap in the market for

The populace of interest for the Women’s Health and Money at Work Project focus groups was low to moderate-income women in Los Angeles County. The study was organized and developed by Iris Cantor - UCLA Women’s Health and Education Research Center, and funded by Cathay Bank Foundation. To note UCLA was approved by the IRB to move forward with the study. For this study four focus groups were pre-scheduled through June – August 2015 at St. Joseph's Center (SJC) or The New Economics Center for Women

Although Berg and Lune (2012) cite Barbour (2008) who states that focus groups are small groups of unrelated individuals, I personally tend to side with Schein who states, "If you want to access your organization's culture, bring together a group of employees who represent the parts of the organization that may be most involved with solving the business problem...” (2009, p. 82). By its very term, a focus group focuses on something. I believe that in ethnographic studies, the "something” is the

conduct two focus group interviews. Out of the participants, twelve NCLP’s and six nurses were interviewed. This was because the interviews could only take place with those who were off duty. All interviews were then recorded on tape, with permission, to ensure that no information would go amiss (Kwong et al., 2011). Focus groups are a technique of group interviewing that exploits communication between research members in order to gather together information (Kitzinger, 1995). Focus groups are predominantly

The purpose of this focus group is to to identity why members of fraternities and sororities, groups that contain elements of a primary, intimate, and task group, continue membership after their organization enters into the storming phase during a particular task or group development. In order to achieve this, I will need to ask these organizations about their intragroup conflict, membership perceptions, and why they choose to stay in an organization that they may disagree with. As far as recruitment

Guide for focus groups Once all participants have arrived, the researcher will explain the purpose of the study and the methods to be used for data collection. The purpose of this study is to explore clinical decision-making skills in different levels of expertise in dentistry and factors influencing these skills. The focus groups will be used for getting more information about various factors that influence clinical decision making of dental practitioners in different clinical settings. Thank