Focus group

Advocacy Focus; My focus is to obtain a focus group that involve individuals and groups who will like to be heard like myself, I will influence them to get involve in politicians, I will use the media, arrange activities, fairs, rally’s to get more people involve. Our voice will be heard though our supporters and networking. Throughout this focus group we will remain confidential and optimistic of situations. My support group will make sure all change are positive. The purpose is to be heard…

Written notes from focus group: Throughout the focus group many participants agreed with each other. Julie shook her head to agree with Shana son’s classroom at the school Pope. Julie and Shivanie's children's teachers are given giftcards for school supplies. When we discussed the second focus group question, we learned that some parents would want to know exactly what the funds would be used for. They said they have donated to many organizations such as: The American Heart Association, their…

Practice Explained- Research “I think using focus groups during reading and literacy is an effective way of learning as the students can learn and listen to one another” (Quoted by mentor teacher 13.09.16) There are a significant range of experts and theorist that agree with this quote, teachers are under the assumption that all students will work and learn better in focus groups as they can have discussions, different thinking strategies and learning from each other, Vygotsky argued, "that…

Female university students attitudes towards physical exercise and their exercise habits. (1. Survey to assess what forms if any of physical exercise they are completing, how often? 2. focus groups to assess why they do or do not exercise and their attitudes in general to physical exercise.) In recent years the rate of female participation in exercise has increased as health issues have been raised (Park Sang et al, 2012: 99). Physical exercise has is an essential lifestyle element and has been…

Scholarly Context Communication has been generally defined as a transmission of signals through various channels that can be systematically interpreted through context (Clampitt, 2013). The term communication was derived from a latin word communis, which means ‘to make common’ and in that sense, communication is to make common of what one (sender) wants to message out to the other (receiver) (Frey, Botan & Kreps, 2000). It is an important, inevitable and unfortunately can be a complicated…

students, will focus upon, group discussions as a suitable qualitative method for this case scenario. Through examining the target group and the different aspects of group discussions, the essay will show that this method is appropriate for the research objectives. Although there are certain disadvantages of forming group discussions, the university environment helps in overcoming some of these issues. Especially, for a topic such as recycling that has social and environmental impact, group…

outcomes of the studied population. Thus, creating generalisation in qualitative research lays in the issues of validity and reliability of the level of notions, explanation and groups of the parent population (Lewis and Ritchie, 2003: 269). Among the three discussed qualitative methods (individual interview, focus group participant observation), it can be claimed that participant observation deemed as having the weakest position in generalising research findings. As LeCompte and Goetz (1982)…

determine specific aspects of positive caregiver-patient relationships using the mutual-participation model (Apollo, Golub, Wainberg & Indyk, 2006).The results were collected through seven focus groups made up of HIV positive patients. Through analyzing patient self-reports and verbatim recordings of the focus groups, positive caregiver-patient relationships proved to help individuals manage their illness. Three aspects of positive caregiver-patient relationships were identified including:…

I particularly liked the idea of the focus group because it shows more open ended answers and ideas from the students. In the focus group, it states how some students like the traditional method, some like the multimedia method and some like both. Through the focus group study, I allowed me to realize that it all depends on the learning styles of the students. Which really captured the purpose of the focus group because it allowed me to think a little differently from just…

performance of high school athletes who incur multiple concussions suggest athletes with a history of 3 or more concussions are still impaired on cognitive tasks and concussion symptoms [6].The authors used a cohort study design, the IVs were concussion groups (0,1,2,>3), and time ( baseline, 3 days, 8 days), the DVs were neurocognitive test scores measured by Immediate Post Concussion Assessment, cognitive testing (ImPact), neurocognitive test battery (verbal, visual memory, processing…