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.
In turn, that brings us to perhaps the most powerful lesson to emerge
from our focus group discussions: While we learned much about the strengths and ideals that black teachers tend to bring to their work, we were struck mainly by the urgent need to support those teachers professionally and help them build long, productive, and satisfying careers in the public schools.
«Climate Change - Induced Migration in Bangladesh: Findings
from the Focus Group Discussions in Vulnerable Areas,» Todd Eisenstadt, Sk.
Not exact matches
The quantitative research was complemented with
focus group discussions with consumers
from each country, conducted virtually.
Sara Sutton Fell led a competency workshop on «Mobilizing Your Remote Workforce» as well as a
discussion group on Digital Changes in Society
focused on Employment to an international
group of leaders
from corporate, nonprofit, NGO, and educational organizations.
After finishing its
discussion of a passage
from the Hebrew Bible, the
group began
focusing on a passage
from Matthew's Gospel in which Jesus instructs his questioners to «render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.»
The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public»
discussion, no longer
focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious
groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public
from the excesses of powerful religious
groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!
When our sermon formation
group returned to our
discussion table after our role play and shared further insights
from our earlier historical - critical homework, two further revelations came into
focus for the sermon.
Qualitative findings
from interviews and
focus group discussions with labour ward staff imply that providers do not necessarily know women's preferences, and are hesitant in allowing women to be mobile because of concern over their safety and the restrictive ward environment.
Mr. Boateng who was speaking at a
focus group discussion on the «Post 2015 District Level Elections», organized by the NCCE with support
from the European Union, to refresh the minds of participants on the country's decentralization concept, stressed that the issue was detrimental to the decentralization process of the country.
The particular harm is that underlying «trend factors» built in to projections on year - to - year spending changes become a self - fulfilling base
from which the
discussion on the budget begins... for example, a change
from $ 9 billion to $ 12 billion in actual proposed spending on a program area doesn't become the
focus, if the «projected out - year» for that program had its expected growth going to $ 13.5 billion — instead of anaylyzing why there is 33 percent growth in that program, the interest
groups and journalists cover that as a «cut» of $ 1.5 billion.
The women and girls who participated in the
focus group discussion hailing
from various IDPs2 camps in Mogadishu said they live under fear due to abuses by armed
groups members especially when going to the bush to collect firewood with some of them being raped or assaulted to extent that some have opted to sending their male children or relatives to the bush to collect firewood.
Focus Group Discussion, Interview by Ifrah Ahmed,
Group Interview, 25 participants hailed
from various IDPs camp within Mogadishu, interview at Al Cadaalo camp, Mogadishu, October 13, 2014
Much of this information came
from focus groups that Julia convened, as well as
from some
discussions with faculty.
The facilitator also helps to
focus the
discussion, prevent a few people
from monopolizing the conversation, encourage the quiet ones to contribute, and get the
group through long pauses.
Opinion that the program had strong leadership which helped its successful implementation;
Focus on meeting social, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs through the program; Details of the program, including its
grouping of students
from various age
groups and use of hands - on experiences;
Discussion of the impact the program had in various areas, such as students» self - esteem and attitudes about school and learning.
The grey areas indicate underlying domains (PK, CK, TK, PCK) that we inferred
from the data but were not reflected in the
focus group discussions.
The combination of skills these individuals bring to our team -
from statistical and data analysis, to experience conducting surveys, interviews, and
focus group or panel
discussions - allows APA to examine the full array of quantitative and qualitative factors that can influence the development of education policy.
Here, we present the main themes and ideas to emerge
from these
discussions (and in forthcoming work we will share what we heard in
focus groups with Hispanic teachers).
The
discussion focussed on the potential to create a «bottom up» approach to accountability, with schools and school
groups being open to support and challenge
from one another.
In
discussions about providing research databases for the public, many librarians in our
focus groups said that patrons are not generally aware of the databases that are available or how these databases differ
from the resources available through a public search engine such as Google.
- A panel
discussion bringing together Claire Perry, Minister for Climate Change and Industry, UK Government, Enrico Viale, Head of Global Generation at Enel
Group, Rusty Kruzelock, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer at West Virginia Retail Park and others
from communities most affected by the decline of polluting industries to
focus on how more can be done to ensure action on climate change creates jobs and prosperity for all
The Boston Bar Association highlighted Shannon's work for the Recently Elected Partners Forum in an article
focusing on the
group's inaugural event: A panel
discussion featuring leaders
from area law firms.
Whilst the briefing paper
from the House of Commons library does attempt to address this issue, the
discussion is very superficial and simplistic
focusing on the cases of Consistent
Group Ltd v Kalwak [2007] IRLR 560, [2007] All ER (D) 319 (May) and Pulse Healthcare v Carewatch Care Services Ltd (2012) UKEAT / 0123/12 / BA, [2012] All ER (D) 113 (Aug) and whether the written agreement reflected the true situation.
The panelists will include The Honourable Mr. Justice Colin L. Campbell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Master Calum MacLeod of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and legal practitioners such as Susan Wortzman, founder of Wortzman Nickle and the Chair of the Steering Committee of Sedona Conference ® Working
Group 7, Sedona Canada, and Co-Chair of the Inaugural Program together with Kelly Friedman, a litigation partner with Ogilvy Renault LLP and Co-Chair of Sedona Canada Inaugural Conference, Dominic Jaar, legal counsel at Ledjit, an information management, e-discovery and law practice management consulting firm, Jonathan Redgrave a founding partner of Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner and Steering Committee Chair Emeritus of The Sedona Conference ® Working
Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1), as well as Martin Felsky of Commonwealth Legal, David Gray, a partner in the Litigation
Group of McCarthy Tétrault in Montréal, Glenn A. Smith, one of the five founding partners of Lenczner Slaght, Karen Groulx, a partner at Pallett Valo LLP, Peg Duncan, Department of Justice, Canada, Robert Deanne, a partner with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Vancouver, Ron Hudges of Nixon Peabody, Kenneth J. Withers, Director of Judicial Education and Content for The Sedona Conference ®, as well as other members of the bench and bar
from both Canada and the U.S. Panel
discussions will
focus on 7 key areas:
CFRP's Snapshot Involving Fathers in Home Visiting Programs: Lessons
from the Dads, which summarizes CFRP's
focus group discussions with fathers in the THV communities about the fathers» beliefs and attitudes regarding father engagement in the home visiting programs, was distributed at the conference.
The parenting intervention consisted of culturally tailored societal information combined with the Connect parenting support program.24 The culturally tailored societal information was developed based on an earlier finding
from a qualitative
focus group discussion.6 This part of the intervention constituted the first part of the program (2 sessions) and covered 3 themes: convention on the rights of the child, parenting styles (authoritarian and democratic parenting), and the aim and purpose of social services work with children.
The parenting intervention consisted of 12
group - based sessions lasting on average about 1 — 2 hours, combining culturally tailored societal information with the Connect parenting support programme, which has been described elsewhere.33 The first two sessions were designed based on results
from earlier findings on qualitative
focus group discussions.3 The aim of the culturally tailored societal information aspect of the intervention was to give Somali - born parents an introduction on parenting styles, the rights of the child, the family legal system in relation to parenting and the goal of the work of social services with children and family.
Our 12 - week program is adapted
from MBSR, a structured 8 - week program of instruction in the cultivation of mindfulness, a practice of purposeful nonjudgmental attention to the happenings of the present moment.5 MBSR programs consist of 3 components: (1) didactic material related to mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and the mind - body connection; (2) experiential practice of various mindfulness meditations, mindful yoga, and body awareness during
group meetings and encouragement of home practice; and (3)
group discussion focused on the application of mindfulness to everyday situations and problem - solving related to barriers to effective practice.5, 13,14 The MBSR program includes a number of formal and informal techniques, all of which share the goal of enhancing nonjudgmental present -
focused awareness, aimed to reduce dysregulated
focus on the past (ie, rumination) and worries about the future (ie, anxiety).
Focus group discussions with the health visitors delivering the intervention37 and in - depth one - to - one interviews with participating mothers38 provide a contrasting insight into the effect of the programme
from that offered by the quantitative data.38, 39 Although these qualitative data can not provide evidence of overall effectiveness, they suggest that the participants experienced changes, that would not have been captured with the standardised outcome instruments used in this trial.
The qualitative study involved
focus group research and one - to - one
discussions with community, voluntary, and statutory
groups as well as individuals
from these sectors.
Combining therapy role - plays, experiential exercises, case presentations, data graphics,
focused lectures, and small
group discussions, you can expect high - quality training
from ACBS Pre-Conference Workshops.
The Honoring Our Children Initiative, with support
from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, collected community / tribal level data beginning in 2012 through a series of
focus groups, surveys, and
discussions with tribal families, staff, and leaders.
Three main sources of data gathering were used in the present study: survey methods using structured questionnaires that were devised specifically for this study; semi-structured interviews with Indigenous litigants; and input
from focus group participants that consisted of open
discussion with representatives of government and non-government agencies, Aboriginal community controlled agencies and private legal practitioners.
Feedback was gathered
from pilot participants through
discussions at
focus groups and through an evaluation feedback form.