Over two years, researchers collected data
from focus groups with educators, administrators, and support staff, researcher field notes and photographs.
Students and teachers together analyzed
data from the focus groups, identified four areas for reform, and presented these findings to the faculty.
But
results from focus groups show that such disaster narratives are good at attracting attention, but not so good at motivating genuine personal engagement or behaviour change.
It also contains
insights from focus groups with more than 100 parents about how they think about summer and what would motivate them to sign their children up for voluntary summer learning programs.
It is
apparent from the focus group findings and lack of internal legal supports that women's shelters are facing organizational barriers to coordinating sufficient legal resources for clients.
This year the magazine has made some refinements and design tweaks to deliver information in a more scannable, useful way, based in part on
feedback from a focus group of brokers that we convened last November.
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.
Recruitment and data collection procedures were developed with input
from focus groups of rural African American community members (Kumpfer et al., 2002; Murry and Brody, 2004), and community liaisons were used to aid in the recruitment and retention of participants.
«Based on evidence
gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.
For each type of decision, we furnish representative quotes
from focus group interviews that exemplify the preservice teachers» decision making while planning for and using iPad apps in their lessons.
Patricia Levesque of the Foundation for Florida's Future and Foundation for Excellence in Education says these ideas
came from focus groups with parents about their biggest testing bugaboos.
Designed from focus group feedback, it is an all - new, American - made, two - speed, corded clipper with two unique performance systems to take grooming to new levels — Constant Speed Control (CSC) and PowerDrive Performance (PDP).
Perry took a big
hit from the focus group for defending his position on giving in - state tuition to the children of illegals.
A villagewide survey and input
from focus groups showed residents nearly evenly divided over the options, said committee member Chuck Bumbales.
But, politicians are now
aware from focus groups how best to say to the electorate what it wants to hear; they know to offer bribes not ideas since people intensely dislike all ideologies but their own.
He released «stark» new
research from focus groups around the UK which shows that Labour voters think that politics and politicians are disconnected from the real world and believe there is «real anger about perceived dodgy deals in Whitehall».
Below are some of the
thoughts from our focus group (see 2:49 pm) on Ed Miliband's leadership and Labour's loss in the aftermath of the election result:
A team of nurse - researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) published a study in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing in which they gathered perspectives on coping
mechanisms from focus groups with 14 mothers of critically ill infants, and explored the feasibility of mindfulness as a stress - reduction technique.
Drawing from focus groups held with 35 teacher - trainees at four universities in the Pennsylvania, they find that future science teachers often lack the knowledge, conviction, and role models needed to teach evolution with confidence.
... The Bank of Canada should not have responded to feedback
[from focus groups] about how someone looked,» he adds, but should have instead left the design to the artist.
Many trainees benefit from accessible, individualized online courses while others would
benefit from focused group discussions or didactic lectures.
An intelligent ode to a time when Hollywood made wildly inventive movies without
pressure from focus groups, there's a serious edge to what superficially looks like a madcap comical romp.
Although the release of The Equalizer is still several months away, Sony is already planning a sequel thanks to the current cut of the film earning massive
approval from focus groups.
From focus grouping religious content to micro-managing the personal lives of Capital's stars to controlling the whispers of gossip columnists, Mannix is a man with a mission or twenty.
Results
from the focus groups did not come as a surprise to officials of the Australian Capital Territory branch of the Australian Education Union, which represents 156,000 educators from pre-K through...
Data were collected and analyzed over three
years from focus groups; interviews; school walk - throughs; and process documentation of curriculum, student work, teacher lesson outlines and online documentation templates.
Here's the thing, though: Like so many other brilliant ideas sparked in a product - planning session,
distilled from focus group results and approved heartily in the boardroom, I'm not sure if anyone bothered to ask what was really necessary.
Which titles did Viking (Penguin) ultimately refuse to publish due to shifts in the market or waning
interest from focus groups in books about Depression - era suffering and the plight of the Okies?
Archuleta says the company decided to go with a more rigid device after
learning from focus groups that flexible readers made users «a little bit nervous» about using a flimsy device.
If this is so, how can we expect reliable
verbals from focus groups, some of whom have not had a significant exposure to temperature change trends in their adult lifetime?
The other focus groups will consist of firms that have two to 10 lawyers, medium - sized firms with 11 to 25 individuals and large firms with more than 26 lawyers.The findings
from the focus groups along with the interim report recommendations will all contribute to the final report, which Van Ommen is hoping to complete by the end of 2017 along with bencher approval for the recommendations.
«We have worked extensively with our customers across Canada - gathering information and feedback
from focus group sessions, through market research, and via exhaustive user testing - to determine what features we needed to add to Quicklaw to make it an even better product.
We've
seen from focus groups that people hear about the product and learn that having in addition to having all the power you get an Amazon Echo in terms of the hardware to voice streaming to voice control, you also have this very modern design of a light fixture.
New insights were
gained from focus group participants about messages to include in program advertisements and program content to emphasise in order to engage fathers.
A qualitative analysis of
transcripts from focus groups with 11 participants aged 15 — 25 years revealed four ways in which music listening links with well - being: relationship building, modifying emotions, modifying cognitions and emotional immersion.
According to a new Harvard study — based on data
gathered from focus groups, interviews, and several surveys, including one of roughly 20,000 11 - to -18-year-old boys and girls from 59 public and private secondary schools — nearly a quarter of girls preferred male over female political leaders.