Sentences with phrase «focus group analysis»

An exploratory survey and focus group analysis.

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Paul adds that you can find out how others view by: «googling yourself, holding a focus group (of close friends), or asking a life coach or business coach to conduct a 360 analysis on your behalf (we do this for all of our clients and it's very effective).»
Prior to joining City Capital, David was an Investment Banking Analyst at BB&T Capital Markets in the Aerospace, Defense & Government Services Group focusing on providing financial and strategic analysis, valuation, industry research, due diligence and preparation of comprehensive client marketing materials.
After analysis of the results, it was decided to hold 13 focus groups around the state, for the purpose of exploring some of the issues in depth.
These terms offer a framework for analysis, with a focus on the interaction and the effects of this process on communication between individuals or among small or large groups.
Factors in the struggle of a people to exist as a corporate body are set forth in the four - function paradigm of Talcott Parsons.10 Although the adequacy of his analysis is challenged by other theories, especially those focused upon social change, 11 Parsons's model provides a useful delineation of the actions implicated in a group's toil to perpetuate itself.
Amy currently runs a consulting firm focused on assisting businesses, associations, nonprofits and advocacy groups with legal issues, legislative and regulatory research, obtaining grants, and market analysis and trends.
Kuala Lumpur: At the midway point of the 2017 AFC Champions League Group Stage, the-AFC.com analyses the progress of the remaining 23 under 23 stars with the focus now on those in the East Zone.
The survey — based on an analysis of 20,000 calls to the Parentline helpline, along with nearly 200 questionnaires and four focus groups involving mums, dads and children — found that the experiences and feelings of mothers and fathers are very different.
A method has been developed to assess genetic and environmental contributions to the average difference between a selected group and the unselected population (DeFries & Fulker, 1985, 1988), in contrast to the usual genetic analysis that focuses on individual differences.
Based on data derived from the most recent NARM job analysis, midwife members who self - identified as «of color» will be invited to participate in focus groups to explore facilitators and barriers that they have experienced with respect to access to midwifery education, and as practitioners.
On the journey back to the station, my taxi driver / one man focus group offers me his very lively analysis.
In addition, you will be able to enjoy the Ashcroft In America podcast — with «straight from the horse's mouth» focus group quotes, analysis from the Lord Ashcroft Polls team, and interviews with eminent figures from the American political world (more...)
Article 15 Focus Groups and Analysis A body of knowledge on the meaning of the right to benefit from scientific progress across disciplines.
The analysis documents how state forces steadily widened their focus from killing militants in the 1960s to terrorizing the civilian population through massacring large groups of Mayan villagers by the 1980s.
The survey is part of a research package that also includes an analysis of focus groups and an essay summarizing experts» views on these topics.
These are among the findings from the research package that includes a survey report, a focus - group analysis and an essay offering expert views on these topics.
When the researchers repeated the analysis to focus on problem gambling − a larger group of people than those with the more narrowly defined pathological gambling − they found that 16 percent of relatives of the pathological gamblers were problem gamblers compared to 3 percent of relatives of controls.
«We've done a lot of focus groups and data collection and analysis when we started [Level Blends], and 80 or 85 percent of people fall right into the effect we say they will get,» Emerson says.
The findings are based on data collected through various methods including behavioural experiments with children in two countries (The Netherlands and Spain); focus groups with children and with parents in eight countries (UK, Spain, Italy, France, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Sweden); a survey with parents in the same eight countries; an in - depth analysis of the most popular games in the main online platforms; a literature review, and a regulatory review covering the 28 EU Member States, Norway and Iceland.
The team studied more than 4,000 patients (adults and children) who were taking daily asthma medicines and focused their analysis on two groups: patients who had stable asthma for at least one year who stayed on their same daily asthma medicine and patients who had stable asthma for at least one year who stepped down their daily asthma medicine.
The researchers suggest, based on their analysis of the data, that screening compliance could be increased by focusing educational and outreach efforts on certain groups who were less likely to get their infants screened for congenital CMV: less educated mothers, babies not born in a hospital and infants who received hearing tests later than 14 days after birth.
My group's research focuses on the development of new computational methods for analysis of DNA from the latest sequencing technologies.
The ability to distill a rigorous distinction between the experiences came not only from randomly assigning meditating students to two groups — one focused on the nose and one focused on the belly — but also by employing two independent coders to perform standardized analyses of the journal entries the students made immediately after meditating.
A focused oligonucleotide microarray of 1,178 genes, qRT — PCR of selected transcripts, and western analysis of hypoxia inducible factor - 1α (HIF - 1α) were used to compare retinas from the hypoxic and recovery groups to control animals that were not made hypoxic.
The group also has experience in the creation of custom panels for the analysis of pathogen specific immune responses with focus on innate and adaptive arms of the immune system.
A major focus of our group is the analysis of the molecular pathogenesis and novel prognostic factors in adult patients with AML (1; 2).
By focusing the analysis on date of diagnosis, this study found blood glucose control had little effect on the rates of microvascular complications, with the exception of PDR in the most recently diagnosed group.
His group in Mainz is focused primarily on the analysis of data from the XENON Experiment as well as the development of simulations and novel, innovative detector technologyies.
Having demonstrated that «metabolomic» profiles change in predictable ways as cancer progresses, the group began more focused analyses.
As a member of the Numerical Algorithms group, he develops new methods for analysis of biological data, with particular focus on cryo - electron microscopy.
Along these lines, the focus group participants identified the main themes as benefits of statistics to society (and thus, promoting the socially responsible practice of statistics), expanding primary education of statistics, ease of public access to data, data accuracy and quality, and protection of privacy in sampling and data analysis.
The ALE subtraction analysis for the comparison of verum versus sham acupuncture should be interpreted with caution because the groups are disparate in total number of foci.
Focus group data analysis on the 2011 Sit N Fit Chair Yoga pilot study showed pain reduction, improved mobility, a feeling of security and improvement in sense of well - being.
This analysis of the NIH - funded Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) focuses on the comparison of 2 treatment groups chelation + MV versus placebo infusions + placebo MV, evaluating a treatment strategy reflecting clinical practice, and not previously presented in detail.
Of all modern industries, it is advertising that keeps its finger on the pulse of public consciousness; market surveys, demographic analyses, book sale trends, focus groups, consumer polls and university research help Madison Avenue gauge the dreams and preferences of that sole arbiter of corporate profits — the American consumer.
To do this, you may want to carry out a thorough needs analysis through surveys, focus groups, or one - on - one interviews with key people within the organization, subject matter experts, and members of your audience.
If you've been on the fence as to whether focus groups are worth to be incorporated into your eLearning development strategy, these convincing arguments may just be the catalyst you need to start using this analysis tool.
* 4 POWERPOINTS * 18 READING / ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels) * 86 VIEWING QUESTIONS * 62 VIEWING / READING / LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work) Credits and Opening Montage, Film Techniques, Brainstorming and Making Connections, Juxtaposition of Scenes, Connecting Allusions to Theme, Paintings and Significance, Symbols, TV Repairman, Significance of Name and Titles, Mural, Music * 4 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 2 FIVE - PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 1 AP STYLE PROMPT * 1 AP STYLE PASSAGE TEST (analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels) * 86 VIEWING QUESTIONS * 62 VIEWING / READING / LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work) Credits and Opening Montage, Film Techniques, Brainstorming and Making Connections, Juxtaposition of Scenes, Connecting Allusions to Theme, Paintings and Significance, Symbols, TV Repairman, Significance of Name and Titles, Mural, Music * 4 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 2 FIVE - PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 1 AP STYLE PROMPT * 1 AP STYLE PASSAGE TEST (analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work) Credits and Opening Montage, Film Techniques, Brainstorming and Making Connections, Juxtaposition of Scenes, Connecting Allusions to Theme, Paintings and Significance, Symbols, TV Repairman, Significance of Name and Titles, Mural, Music * 4 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 2 FIVE - PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 1 AP STYLE PROMPT * 1 AP STYLE PASSAGE TEST (analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY ANALYSISANALYSIS
In focus groups the researchers ran concurrently with the meta - analysis, some parents talked about their belief that children learn from failure.
Secondly, at the beginning of the year when students are just beginning to learn how to do this kind of information analysis, they are in groups with a topical focus like hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes.
Perhaps the best way to find out all of this is to conduct a survey, have focus groups or individual interviews with the important people in your organization, to carry out a thorough analysis.
Most studies using the Pell proxy, however, are focused on four - year institutions, and limiting the analysis to this group of students shows that the share of low - income students who received a Pell Grant is still surprisingly low (73.2 percent).
A meta - analysis of pre-kindergarten programs found that those that focused on intentional teaching and small group and one - to - one interactions had larger impacts on child outcomes.
Data collection efforts to date include focus groups with principals and parents, surveys of principals and parents, and analysis of program application data.
He supplements this analysis with insights from focus group discussions with rural Hispanic students in Idaho to better understand why these students are falling behind their peers on the path to college and career.
Due to the complexity of the study, the fact that many of the classroom variables focus on grades 1 - 3 (e.g., student level of engagement, time spent in small - or whole - group instruction, preferred interaction style), and the use of different outcome measures, the kindergarten classrooms were dropped from the analysis.
The first two authors independently identified and coded instructional decisions mentioned in the focus group interviews using qualitative analysis methods, using Microsoft Word to color code instances of instructional decisions.
Typically, a small group of educators, such as the leadership team, conducts a thorough analysis of recent data pertaining to a focus area and finds a pattern — or «story» — they believe is important for the entire faculty to think about.
By focusing and honing their skills on tasks like subject matter expert interview techniques, content analysis and organization, learning objective identification, focus and user group testing, and more, these instructional designers can design and direct the production of training materials with little - to - no prior experience with the content.
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