Sentences with phrase «of focus group participants»

Overall, a little more than a third of focus group participants (38 percent of the Virginia sample and 32 percent of the New Jersey sample) indicated on their written questionnaire that either they or their spouse had sought marriage counseling.

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In 2013 I focused mainly on local restaurants and so I wasn't too much of a participant in Sunday Supper, but I continued to follow along every week and check in on what the regulars were doing and how the group was growing.

The research was carried out in four European countries, (France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) and comprised of four two - hour focus group sessions in each country totaling 128 participants.

Clinics, seminars, workshops or large group lessons can consist of mostly lecture and demonstration on any area of the game, or the focus can be more hands - on — working with all participants on their techniques.

The district has scheduled a series of focus group meetings later this month and is aiming to get as many as 12 participants in each session.

Each participant signed a consent form prior to commencement of the focus groups or gave verbal consent for a telephone interview.

Focus group participants were recruited across several settings via posters inviting participation in the study, at child health clinics, child care centres and early learning centres, to obtain women with a range of experience, socioeconomic levels and occupations.

Each group was narrowly focused but participants invariably shifted discussions to the state of the country and the changing political scene.

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 final round of my general election focus groups comes from three Labour seats in Wales: Cardiff South & Penarth, Alyn & Deeside, and Newport West, with participants who voted Labour or UKIP in 2015.

Over the course of 18 months, the Coalition conducted 17 focus groups, involving 145 participants from a diversity of scientific and engineering disciplines (Protocol: Appendix C).

Patrick Brandt, director of career development and training at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and another working group participant, says he uses the jobs his program's alumni are in to determine which careers his office's skill development programming should focus on.

In preparation for the summit, the participants, who represent a wide range of expertise, divided into working groups focusing on workforce structure, training, and research funding.

The study involved participants of European descent exclusively, but co-author Roy Perlis, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes it's standard method to focus on one group as a starting point, since previous research shows genetic markers can vary by ethnicity.

AAAS has held 17 focus groups since 2010 involving 145 U.S. participants representing a broad range of scientific disciplines.

After several months of computer training, the participant pairs then joined to form a small group focused on social cognition, or thinking abilities involved in understanding others and processing social information.

To address the possibility that some exacerbations might have been missed because participants either moved out of state or died without coming to a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgery.

Participants of the study were employed by the GOV and asked to participate in a gender - specific focus group, a gender - mixed focus group and an individual interview.

Other participants read a «high - risk» message that focused instead on the consequences of the disease, including the fact that the mortality rate is as high as 40 % in some age groups.

Both intervention groups received standardized packets of material focused on being prepared to recognize and react to stroke symptoms plus a medical alert bracelet so medical professionals would recognize them as SWIFT participants.

The participants in our focus groups agreed almost unanimously that although the debate was very important, it was also a shame that such an argument is necessary; all said they would welcome the possibility of a technical means to avoid the ethical problem.

After a day of presentations focused on general country updates, the group traveled to Kayunga, where participants learned about Makerere University Walter - Reed Project's (MUWRP) dynamic range of activities firsthand.

This study addressed that issue by focusing on US participants of European ancestry, then repeating the study in a large group of patients in Germany.

In a new set of focus groups convened by the Synthetic Biology Project, participants raised concerns about the specific applications of the emerging technology.

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.

Each day concluded with a learning group focused on participants» specific areas of interest.

This initiative encouraged participants to focus very specifically on a small group of pupils.

Results indicated professional development based in reform delivery methods (not workshops or short trainings), occurred over time with more than 25 hours of content involved groups of teachers learning together, was focused on the subject taught by the teacher, required teachers to be active participants in their learning, and cohorent, i.e., aligned with standards and teacher goals, was more likely to lead to increases in teacher knowledge and changes in practice.

When asked what kinds of public expressions of support parents would be willing to make, most focus group participants said that they preferred to write letters and testify before Congress or the city council rather than participate in other forms of expression like demonstrating and voting.

Each of focus group lasted about an hour and a half, and there were four or five participants in each of the three focus groups.

Focus group participants emphasized the importance of having school counselors who could work with students to ensure smooth transitions.

Strategies for Understanding Word Problems by Christine King, K - 4 (1:45 P.M. — 2:35 P.M.) This workshop will provide participants with hands - on, small - group experiences focusing on 10 strategies that can be used immediately in the classroom to increase student comprehension of word problems across all the key concepts.

The present study provides evidence of learning by examining participants» MKT through a validated measure and their reports of learning within focus group interviews.

This 6 - page brochure summarizes evaluation data from six place - based education programs representing more than 100 schools (rural, suburban, and urban) covering twelve states.The body of evidence reflects more than 1,000 adult interviews or focus group participants; more than 250 student interviews; more than 900 educator surveys; more than 2,700 student surveys; extensive document review; and dozens of on - site observations.

From among the participants of these focus groups, the researchers interviewed and observed nine teachers from Florence, SC; Tacoma, WA; and Raymond, NH.

As a member of the Task Force, I have also had the great privilege of having small - group, focused conversations with many critical stakeholders in public education in the state, experiences from which I have learned a great deal because I have been a very active participant.

The researchers used a focus group of 150 black teachers, choosing participants representative of the experience levels and teaching environments of the nation's black teachers, and found several patterns.

Because we wanted to maintain the hours of coursework equal between groups, MMC participants discussed more mathematics topics in depth, while LLMT participants focused only on the main topics of the elementary - school mathematics curriculum.

At the conclusion of 2 months of extended play, including the final 3 weeks, which shifted the focus again to short - play games, participants reconvened in one of two focus groups.

Participants will focus on team teaching and how to facilitate in a small group or pair to best serve the outcomes and goals of their programming.

Evaluation efforts included observations, surveys, and focus groups with face - to - face as well as online course participants, and in addition to examining the unique outcomes for each course offering, compared findings across programs of different lenghts and formats.

Latent growth modeling and focus group data indicated growth in participants» content knowledge and initial growth in knowledge of students from pretest to midtest, with a decline at the end of the program.

Two categories of data were examined for this study: (1) artifacts and documents generated throughout the project's 4 - year history (e.g., materials from professional development meetings, teacher questionnaires, district curriculum documents, teacher and student writings, conference papers, and scholarly publications); and (2) individual and focus group interviews conducted with MELAF participants from the four districts at the project's completion.

DPS responded by hosting a series of focus groups, yet there was no reporting back to any of the participants — or more importantly, the community — about how the district would respond to these and other concerns.

Additional data included open - ended interviews with 34 of the 48 MELAF participants from the four districts, as well as followup focus groups with those who had been interviewed individually.

The report contains an in depth anaylsis of what we learned from the 2011 participants through the focus groups.

For instance, while primary quantitative data contain such methods as self - completion questionnaires, structured questionnaires and structured observations; the qualitative data collection methods, on the other hand, comprise of methods like in - depth interviews, focus groups and participant observation.

While the television and film industries have long relied on screenings and focus groups to provide feedback about the likes and dislikes in those forms of entertainment, participants are generally aware that they are taking part in a study.

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On the occasion of the Nieves and Innen Zine Library at SI, Koch will lead a free group drawing workshop that will refresh the imagination by focusing on exploration, freedom, and practice, where participants will together work on still life drawing, collaborative sketching and other exercises.