Download or read book Planning Focus Groups written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the range of practical tasks required in the course of a research project when using focus groups. This title emphasizes the clarifying purposes of the research project in order to collect data that meet the goals. It features a discussion of personnel and budgets.
Download or read book Developing Questions for Focus Groups written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 of this series describes a practical process for identifying powerful themes, & offers a clear strategy for translating these themes into questions. It also makes the process of developing good questions a practical proposition.
Download or read book Moderating Focus Groups written by Richard A. Krueger and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of this series is indispensable for all wishing to improve their focus group moderating skills. This book provides an overview of critical skills needed by moderators, the skills moderators use, & strategies for handling difficult situations.
Download or read book The Focus Group Guidebook written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Focus Group Guide book is part of the six-volume Focus Group Kit, which offers the information needed to conduct a state-of-the-art focus group, from the initial planning stages through to analysing and reporting the data.
Download or read book Analyzing and Reporting Focus Group Results written by Richard A. Krueger and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-07-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Krueger offers a rich and valuable discussion of focus group analysis that is sure to become a major guide in future focus group efforts. Because analyzing focus group data is different from analyzing data collected through other qualitative methodologies, it presents new challenges to researchers. Analyzing and Reporting Focus Group Results offers an overview of important principles guiding focus group research and suggests a systematic and verifiable analysis strategy. Krueger is not doctrinaire, but instead offers multiple approaches and invites others to share their strategies for analysis. The book is helpful for academic audiences, focus group practitioners, and the occasional moderator. And the straightforward approach contains hundreds of helpful tips. The reader of this volume is bound to find delightful strategies that will improve analysis.
Download or read book Focus Groups written by Richard A. Krueger and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-04-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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.
Download or read book Involving Community Members in Focus Groups written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 of the Focus Group Kit is absolutely essential for those who need to teach others how to conduct focus group interviews, particularly non-researchers within a community. The book includes countless tips, advice and exercises.
Download or read book The Focus Group Guidebook written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Focus Group Guide book is part of the six-volume Focus Group Kit, which offers the information needed to conduct a state-of-the-art focus group, from the initial planning stages through to analysing and reporting the data.
Download or read book Planning Focus Groups written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David L Morgan covers the wide range of practical tasks required in the course of a research project when using focus groups. Throughout, Planning Focus Groups emphasizes the clarifying purposes of the research project in order to collect data that meet the goals. The author extensively and concisely covers the basic decisions that are necessary to plan a research project using focus groups, such as who should be in the groups, the total number of groups, their size and much more. This volume also features a detailed discussion of personnel and budgets. Among the other topics covered are recruitment, selecting locations, and recording and managing data. Practical material includes checklists and recruitment tools.
Download or read book Doing Focus Groups written by Rosaline S. Barbour and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, practical introduction to planning and organizing successful focus groups, exploring the advantages and limitations of this method.
Download or read book Focus Groups in Social Research written by Michael Bloor and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Developing Focus Group Research written by Jenny Kitzinger and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Successful Focus Groups written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993-04-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title addresses the issues, practice wisdom and problems in conducting focus groups. Written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, it covers the basic principles of when and how to use focus groups, the applicability of focus group interviews to survey research and other methods, general issues in the use of focus groups, the specific problems of focus groups with different populations or settings and an agenda for future development of the method.
Download or read book Focus Groups written by David W. Stewart and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Focus Groups as Qualitative Research written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Moderating Focus Groups written by Richard A. Krueger and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of this series is indispensable for all wishing to improve their focus group moderating skills. This book provides an overview of critical skills needed by moderators, the skills moderators use, & strategies for handling difficult situations.
Download or read book Collecting Qualitative Data written by Greg Guest and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a very practical and step-by-step guide to collecting and managing qualitative data,
