Moderating Focus Groups

Moderating Focus Groups
Author: Richard A. Krueger
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1998
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780761908210

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.

Planning Focus Groups

Planning Focus Groups
Author: David L. Morgan
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1998
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780761908173

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.

Developing Questions for Focus Groups

Developing Questions for Focus Groups
Author: David L. Morgan
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780761908197

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.

The Focus Group Guidebook

The Focus Group Guidebook
Author: David L. Morgan
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780761908180

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.

Analyzing and Reporting Focus Group Results

Analyzing and Reporting Focus Group Results
Author: Richard A. Krueger
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1997-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1506339174

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.

Involving Community Members in Focus Groups

Involving Community Members in Focus Groups
Author: David L. Morgan
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780761908203

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.

Focus Groups

Focus Groups
Author: Richard A. Krueger
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2000-04-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780761920717

`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.

Focus Groups

Focus Groups
Author: David W. Stewart
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761925835

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Doing Focus Groups

Doing Focus Groups
Author: Rosaline S. Barbour
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1526426021

A concise, practical introduction to planning and organizing successful focus groups, exploring the advantages and limitations of this method.

Developing Focus Group Research

Developing Focus Group Research
Author: Jenny Kitzinger
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999-02-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761955689

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