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Author : Edward F. Fern
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0761912495
Broad and international in scope, Advanced Focus Group Research introduces a conceptual framework that can help researchers make informed decisions about how to plan and implement a focus group research project.
Author : Michael Bloor
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 076195743X
There is an increasing divergence of focus group practice between social researchers and commercial market researchers. This book addresses the key issues and practical requirements of the social researcher, namely: the kinds of social research issues for which focus groups are most and least suitable; optimum group size and composition; and the designing of focusing exercises, facilitation and appropriate analysis. The authors use examples, drawn from their own focus groups research experience, and provide exercises for further study. They address the three main components of composition, conduct and analysis in focus group research and also acknowledge the increasing impact the Internet has had on social research by cover
Author : Martha Ann Carey,Jo-Ellen Asbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315428369
This volume provides a thorough introduction to creating and conducting focus group research projects. Carey and Asbury provide background on the history of focus groups then document the best practices in conducting a study using them. They also provide valuable advice on how to conduct a fair and accurate analysis of minorities and other vulnerable groups within the population at large. This book is an excellent introduction for any researcher looking to utilize focus groups in their next project.
Author : Thomas L Greenbaum
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761912533
As one of the most popular tools for gathering information in today's marketplace focus groups require understanding of purpose and good grounding in the technique to be effective. In The Handbook for Focus Group Research, Second Edition Tom Greenbaum provides the latest information on conducting effective focus groups.
Author : Jenny Kitzinger,Rosaline Barbour
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761955682
This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work. The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of `minority' groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse anal
Author : Richard A. Krueger,Mary Anne Casey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0761920714
`I read this book in a single sitting. It is written in an enthusiastic, helpful and clear style that held my attention, and made me want to read what came next. I shall read it again in a single sitting - probably more than once. For it offers common-sense advice about planning and running focus groups which I will want to revisit′ - British Journal of Education Technology The Third Edition of the `standard′ for learning how to conduct a focus group contains: a new chapter comparing and contrasting market research, academic, nonprofit and participatory approaches to focus group research; expanded descriptions on how to plan focus group studies and do the analysis, including step-by-step procedures; examples of questions that ask participants to do more than just discuss, and suggestions on how to answer questions about your focus group research.
Author : Holly Edmunds
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071394536
The Focus Group Research Handbook is a comprehensive guide to contracting with a market research vendor to create a customized focus group study for your business or organization. Author Holly Edmunds thoroughly explains and simplifies the methodology of focus group studies, and comprehensively outlines the steps you'll need to follow to implement and then analyze focus group research. From designing research vendor questionnaires, to selecting an effective moderator, from analyzing results to turning those results into workplace gains, this book will provide you with all the tools and tips you'll need to simplify the focus group process.
Author : Rosaline S. Barbour,David L. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137586148
This volume provides a critical approach to using focus groups, examining how focus groups have been utilized to research a diverse set of research questions covering a broad spectrum of substantive fields. The collection acknowledges the tensions between different research traditions, disciplinary emphases, funding climates, cultural, political, and ethical contexts, and the ever-changing policy backdrop. Contributors to this book encourage researchers to question and surmount disciplinary and terminological labels and disputes in order to capitalize on the full potential of focus groups, to illuminate the complex collaborative processes involved in forming, debating, contesting, and revising opinions; making decisions; and forging identities. The four sections that comprise this collection address, respectively, using focus groups in novel contexts; employing focus groups in mixed methods research designs; innovations in generating focus group data; and new theoretical developments. A New Era in Focus Group Research will be of interest to students and scholars across disciplines as well as focus group practitioners outside of academia.
Author : Celeste Snowber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463007559
"Embodied Inquiry is offered to all who want to deepen the connection to their bodies. Here is the inspiration to see your body as a place of inquiry, learning, understanding and perceiving. Listening to the sensual knowing and aliveness within the body can inform our personal and professional lives and reveal the connections between living, being, and creating. Snowber writes this book in poetic and visceral language as a love letter from the body wooing readers to inhabit their own skins and celebrate the beautiful and paradoxical place where limitations and joy dwell together. Touching on the vastness of our body’s call to us, Embodied Inquiry explores solitude, paradox, inspiration, lament, waking up to the sensuous, ecology, listening, and writing from the body. This is not a manual, but a book to accompany you in befriending the body and let your own gestures, stories and bodily ways of being lead you to listen to your own rhythm. Whether an artist or educator, researcher or administrator, performer or poet, seeker or scientist, you will find this book as a companion to sustain a vibrant life and co-create a better world. “A beautiful, creative and highly original book. Written with passion and wisdom, this book makes significant contributions to arts-based research, artistic research practice, embodiment, and living artful, intentional and connected lives. A stunning achievement.” – Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., author of Method Meets Art and editor of the Social Fictions series “Snowber offers wisdom for learning to live exotically, erotically, emotionally, and ecstatically. Reading Embodied Inquiry is like walking on a wilderness trail, in sunlight-infused rain, learning to embrace the possibilities of vitality and vulnerability, joy and grief, love and loss.” – Carl Leggo, Ph.D., poet & professor, University of British Columbia “Weaving prose and poetry, Snowber awakens our sensual and embodied self at the very roots of living. This deeply personal work will move educators, researchers, artists, and those for whom lived experience is core to their creative processs.” – Daniel Deslauriers, Ph.D., Professor, Transformative Studies Doctorate Program, CIIS" /div
Author : Yvonne Steinert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400776128
This volume addresses all facets of faculty development, including academic and career development, teaching improvement, research capacity building, and leadership development. In addition, it describes a multitude of ways, ranging from workshops to the workplace, in which health professionals can develop their knowledge and skills. By providing an informed and scholarly overview of faculty development, and by describing original content that has not been previously published, this book helps to ensure that research and evidence inform practice, moves the scholarly agenda forward, and promotes dialogue and debate in this evolving field. It will prove an invaluable resource for faculty development program planning, implementation and evaluation, and will help to sustain faculty members’ vitality and commitment to excellence. Kelley M. Skeff, M.D., Ph.D., May 2013: In this text, Steinert and her colleagues have provided a significant contribution to the future of faculty development. In an academic and comprehensive way, the authors have both documented past efforts in faculty development as well as provided guidance and stimuli for the future. The scholarly and well-referenced chapters provide a compendium of methods previously used while emphasizing the expanding areas deserving work. Moreover, the writers consistently elucidate the faculty development process by highlighting the theoretical underpinnings of faculty development and the research conducted. Thus, the book provides an important resource for two major groups, current providers and researchers in faculty development as well as those desiring to enter the field. Both groups of readers can benefit from a reading of the entire book or by delving into their major area of interest and passion. In so doing, they will better understand our successes and our limitations in this emerging field. Faculty development in the health professions has now received attention for 6 decades. Yet, dedicated faculty members trying to address the challenges in medical education and the health care delivery system do not have all the assistance they need to achieve their goals. This book provides a valuable resource towards that end.
Author : David L. Morgan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761903437
This extensively revised edition of Focus Groups as Qualitative Research reflects the many changes that have occurred in the study of focus groups in recent years.
Author : David W. Stewart,Prem N. Shamdasani,Dennis W. Rook
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 076192583X
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Author : Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Health
ISBN : 0195551435
This book is a practical guide to conducting and analysing qualitative research. It utilises both established as well as more innovative and complex methods, all illustrated by detailed Australian examples. Author from Latrobe University, Australia.
Author : Lia Litosseliti
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114366813
Focus groups are often under-used as a tool for research. This practical guide offers advice on: planning and organising focus groups; what types of questions to use; limitations and advantages of using these groups in research; collecting data at group sessions; and how to analyse data.
Author : David L. Morgan
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506327136
Basic and Advanced Focus Groups illustrates both the different types of focus groups and how to decide among those options in order to produce the most effective focus groups possible. A variety of approaches to doing research with focus groups gives readers the tools to develop and examine their research designs, starting with the basics. Advanced coverage in each chapter takes an in-depth look at topics such as moderating focus groups, using mixed methods, and working with different sizes of groups. By taking a practical, applied approach, the author gives even novice students the knowledge and confidence to design and conduct effective focus group research, while simultaneously providing more advanced researchers with the tools and knowledge to refine their current practices.
