Group Analysis

findings of Frisvold’s paper and investigates the impact of school breakfast programs on the cognitive achievement of students. While the paper consists of a range of technical data, this report takes a more critical approach and draws out an intuitive analysis from the research, with some reference to the data provided. 1. Introduction How important is breakfast? Breakfast is understood to have a vital influence on an individual’s educational attainment. In this paper, Frisvold…

focus group discussions, when it is used and the skills needed by the interviewer during informal discussions. Khan & Manderson (1992) described focus group discussions as a qualitative method in which the facilitator or moderator uses a pre-tested line of questioning to stimulate discussion among the participants on the subject of inquiry. The aim is to understand perceptions and beliefs of a selected population to gain understanding of a particular issue from the perspective of the group 's…

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…

more prevalent where sources of threat are highest, notably when and where the minority population is relatively large and where there exists competition for limited social sources, such as jobs.” (1255). One article that studies this question is “Group Threat and Social Control: Race, Perceptions of Minorities and the Desire to Punish,” written by Ryan D. King and Darren Wheelock. King and Wheelock stated, “We take advantage of new survey data on the topics of race, perceptions of minorities…

the beginning of each focus group, I introduced myself; provided name badges for the group members; and explained the study’s purpose. After, I described my role as the moderator and how the session would progress. I reminded the participants about the digital audio recorders and that their responses would be assigned pseudonyms to ensure confidentiality. Then, I distributed consent forms and participant questionnaires (see Appendix A) along with pencils to the group. After collecting the…

interpreters who have the language and knowledge competencies necessary to ensure consent is informed, rational and voluntary. Generating and analysing data Comparative analyses between racial/ethnic 'groups ' can be compromised if data collection tools operate differently for different 'groups ', for instance because of cultural incongruity. This is because languages requires the use of rigorous translation techniques with particular attention to ensuring conceptual equivalence. Researchers…

authors used focus groups which allowed the African-American students to share their racial climate experiences on their college campuses using a critical race theory (CRT). A grounded theory approach was used to investigate the concepts of racial microaggressions and the college racial climate. Transcripts, research memos, and field notes from the data which allowed systematic analysis of the thematic patterns to emerge from the data that was collected (p. 65). The focus group analysis…

American Society can be seen as melting pot in which points toward that each of the ethnic group often blends with the host culture, and also forms a new and different culture. And the superficial connection between the ethnicities is the Symbolic ethnicity.…

public policies. The public process model takes in a lot of important aspects of policy making that goes hand in hand with political reality. Those aspects are stages or components because it helps with decisions in the different ways of life of a group of people and formal settings. Policy cycle is used to described policy process model because the process is in a continuous cycle, whether than a one-time set of course. There is really no policy decision or solution that is final because things…

software performance engineering is proposed. Poka-Yoke is a mistake proofing technique used in product design. The effectiveness of Poka-Yoke in software development was evaluated using two case studies: product redesign mini-project given to six groups of students and a survey of online services in the software industry. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluation was done. Our proposed five-step mistake proofing technique for software development using Poka-Yoka evaluation demonstrated the…