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Book Synopsis Focus Groups Revisited by : Deanna J. Trakas
Download or read book Focus Groups Revisited written by Deanna J. Trakas and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of articles about performing focus groups with 7 to 11 year-old children. All of the contributions were written by members of a multidisciplinary project which took place in six study sites in Europe and investigated children's experiences with their asthma. The text can be used as a handbook for children's focus groups. It also presents an anthropological perspective to serve as a critical commentary on the processes which occur when focus groups are taken out of their native terrain and used in new social collectivities.
Book Synopsis Focus Groups by : Richard A. Krueger
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.
Book Synopsis Basic and Advanced Focus Groups by : David L. Morgan
Download or read book Basic and Advanced Focus Groups written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic and Advanced Focus Groups illustrates both the different types of focus groups and how to decide among those options in order to produce the most effective focus groups possible. A variety of approaches to doing research with focus groups gives readers the tools to develop and examine their research designs, starting with the basics. Advanced coverage in each chapter takes an in-depth look at topics such as moderating focus groups, using mixed methods, and working with different sizes of groups. By taking a practical, applied approach, the author gives even novice students the knowledge and confidence to design and conduct effective focus group research, while simultaneously providing more advanced researchers with the tools and knowledge to refine their current practices.
Book Synopsis Moderating Focus Groups by : Richard A. Krueger
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.
Book Synopsis Basic and Advanced Focus Groups by : David L. Morgan
Download or read book Basic and Advanced Focus Groups written by David L. Morgan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic and Advanced Focus Groups illustrates both the different types of focus groups and how to decide among those options in order to produce the most effective focus groups possible. A variety of approaches to doing research with focus groups gives readers the tools to develop and examine their research designs, starting with the basics. Advanced coverage in each chapter takes an in-depth look at topics such as moderating focus groups, using mixed methods, and working with different sizes of groups. By taking a practical, applied approach, the author gives even novice students the knowledge and confidence to design and conduct effective focus group research, while simultaneously providing more advanced researchers with the tools and knowledge to refine their current practices.
Book Synopsis Planning Focus Groups by : David L. Morgan
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.
Book Synopsis Talking about Leaving Revisited by : Elaine Seymour
Download or read book Talking about Leaving Revisited written by Elaine Seymour and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking about Leaving Revisited discusses findings from a five-year study that explores the extent, nature, and contributory causes of field-switching both from and among “STEM” majors, and what enables persistence to graduation. The book reflects on what has and has not changed since publication of Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Elaine Seymour & Nancy M. Hewitt, Westview Press, 1997). With the editors’ guidance, the authors of each chapter collaborate to address key questions, drawing on findings from each related study source: national and institutional data, interviews with faculty and students, structured observations and student assessments of teaching methods in STEM gateway courses. Pitched to a wide audience, engaging in style, and richly illustrated in the interviewees’ own words, this book affords the most comprehensive explanatory account to date of persistence, relocation and loss in undergraduate sciences. Comprehensively addresses the causes of loss from undergraduate STEM majors—an issue of ongoing national concern. Presents critical research relevant for nationwide STEM education reform efforts. Explores the reasons why talented undergraduates abandon STEM majors. Dispels popular causal myths about why students choose to leave STEM majors. This volume is based upon work supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award No. 2012-6-05 and the National Science Foundation Award No. DUE 1224637.
Book Synopsis Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-10-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness slip below the surface. Five years ago, the National Academies prepared Rising Above the Gathering Storm, a book that cautioned: "Without a renewed effort to bolster the foundations of our competitiveness, we can expect to lose our privileged position." Since that time we find ourselves in a country where much has changed-and a great deal has not changed. So where does America stand relative to its position of five years ago when the Gathering Storm book was prepared? The unanimous view of the authors is that our nation's outlook has worsened. The present volume, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited, explores the tipping point America now faces. Addressing America's competitiveness challenge will require many years if not decades; however, the requisite federal funding of much of that effort is about to terminate. Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited provides a snapshot of the work of the government and the private sector in the past five years, analyzing how the original recommendations have or have not been acted upon, what consequences this may have on future competitiveness, and priorities going forward. In addition, readers will find a series of thought- and discussion-provoking factoids-many of them alarming-about the state of science and innovation in America. Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited is a wake-up call. To reverse the foreboding outlook will require a sustained commitment by both individual citizens and government officials-at all levels. This book, together with the original Gathering Storm volume, provides the roadmap to meet that goal. While this book is essential for policy makers, anyone concerned with the future of innovation, competitiveness, and the standard of living in the United States will find this book an ideal tool for engaging their government representatives, peers, and community about this momentous issue.
Download or read book Death Revisited written by Arjan Louwen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been a long time in the making. When we left the field for the final time in 2009 we could only guess at what exactly we had found - we did not even have firm dates for most of the graves discovered. The post-excavation analysis of the finds and features proved to be a challenging task, and our interpretations had to be adjusted several times. This was for an important part due to the very complex soils and difficult-to-read features that made even the simplest questions such as 'where does a mound begin and end' difficult to answer.
Book Synopsis The Methodological Dilemma Revisited by : Kathleen Gallagher
Download or read book The Methodological Dilemma Revisited written by Kathleen Gallagher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Methodological Dilemma Revisited, authors examine what in their research processes has given pause, thwarted the process of seamless productivity, stalled the easy research output but has, instead, insisted upon a deeper analysis. This resistance of the expedient explanation has consequences both for the research topics under study and the ways in which qualitative research is conducted in a globalized era of deepening social inequality. The book is pedagogical in its orientation and reflects upon the politics of knowledge construction. Working with queer and minoritized youth communities, and other precarious publics, the authors convey their relationships to groups they are inside, outside, or allied with — posing ethical questions about research designs and worldviews. Themes such as representation, refusal and resistance of hegemonies are nuanced by investigations into the ethical, practical, and scholarly dimensions of the turn towards collaboration in qualitative inquiry. Other chapters examine the place, value and concerns of aesthetic representation of qualitative research. Finally, the authors consider issues of criticality in research, and the concepts of compassion and humility. This book contains contributions from some of the most imaginative qualitative researchers, making the most of their research dilemmas in order to reflect upon the challenges and resistances they encounter in the work of qualitative research.
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
Book Synopsis Qualitative Market Research by : Hy Mariampolski
Download or read book Qualitative Market Research written by Hy Mariampolski and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text guides the reader through a research project from the perspective of both user and practitioner. It meets the needs of several audiences by creating common ground in the applied practice of qualitative research.
Book Synopsis Canon Revisited by : Michael J. Kruger
Download or read book Canon Revisited written by Michael J. Kruger and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the popular-level conversations on phenomena like the Gospel of Thomas and Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus, as well as the current gap in evangelical scholarship on the origins of the New Testament, Michael Kruger’s Canon Revisited meets a significant need for an up-to-date work on canon by addressing recent developments in the field. He presents an academically rigorous yet accessible study of the New Testament canon that looks deeper than the traditional surveys of councils and creeds, mining the text itself for direction in understanding what the original authors and audiences believed the canon to be. Canon Revisited provides an evangelical introduction to the New Testament canon that can be used in seminary and college classrooms, and read by pastors and educated lay leaders alike. In contrast to the prior volumes on canon, this volume distinguishes itself by placing a substantial focus on the theology of canon as the context within which the historical evidence is evaluated and assessed. Rather than simply discussing the history of canon—rehashing the Patristic data yet again—Kruger develops a strong theological framework for affirming and authenticating the canon as authoritative. In effect, this work successfully unites both the theology and the historical development of the canon, ultimately serving as a practical defense for the authority of the New Testament books.
Book Synopsis Secrets of a Master Moderator by : Naomi Henderson
Download or read book Secrets of a Master Moderator written by Naomi Henderson and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book spans nearly 35 years of Naomi's experiences as a moderator and a trainer of qualitative researchers. It covers a full range of QREs (Qualitative Research Events) from IDIs to extended groups.There are tools, tips, and techniques for moderators who run the gamut from new to the industry, to those with long years of research experience. It grapples with knotty questions and concerns that affect those working in market research environments. Henderson guides readers through an exploration of the reasons behind the importance of knowing that what counts in life cannot be measured on a scale, teaching them to navigate the territory of the heart below rational logic of the mind. Now in its third edition, Secrets of a Master Moderator, includes a glossary, index, and sample documents to aide any qualitative market researcher sharpen their skills.Praise for Secrets of a Master Moderator:"e;What comes through clearest in her work is Naomi's vast experience as a master moderator, consultant, educator, and presenter. This book distills the advice and wisdom from countless hours on the front lines of practice, deep in the trenches among consumers and clients."e;- Hy Mariampolski, PhD. QualiData Research Inc."e;It is jam-packed with tips, a valuable tool that I wish I had been able to access 20 years ago when I was starting to commission and then conduct qualitative research... The book is a 'how to,' a dictionary, a textbook, and a series of relevant anecdotes about the practice of qualitative research."e;- Nancy Kramarich, Anderson DDB Health & Lifestyle"e;This book is a gem and is likely to become a standard reference on the QRC's bookshelf."e;- Kay Corry Aubrey, Usability Resources, Inc."e;The book is inspired in its composition and content; at times profound and insightful, light and funny in others...It is the 'next best thing' to having Naomi on speed dial!"e;- Miguel Martinez-Baco, ORC International
Book Synopsis Our Enduring Values Revisited by : Michael Gorman
Download or read book Our Enduring Values Revisited written by Michael Gorman and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stirring manifesto, public intellectual, librarian, and philosopher Gorman addresses head on the “existential panic” among library professionals caused by the radical shift in how libraries are viewed.
Book Synopsis Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century by : Constantinos N. Phellas
Download or read book Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century written by Constantinos N. Phellas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual interactions are socially constructed within a historical, social and cultural milieu, and are continually defined and redefined accordingly depending on the surrounding economic, political, moral, and religious social forces. Although the human capacity for sexual expression spans a wide range of variations and permutations, it is nonetheless seriously confined, limited and restricted to only a few “acceptable” forms. Western style “sexual acceptability” is, in turn, determined by the prevailing white, heterosexual standards of patriarchy perpetuated through childhood masculine socialization and adolescent and adult machismo practices. Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century examines a whole set of explanatory and definitional issues from the very outset, particularly regarding what may be rightly included and excluded from its provenance and coverage. The contributors to this book are brought together from three different methodological spheres: qualitative, quantitative, and historical/comparative. Each author lays out the traditional parameters of the methodology used in their perspectives of social science research, and openly discusses how they have been applied to the study of hetero sexuality/non-heterosexuality and the ways in which their theory and methodology may be improved. Their contributions outline some of the major theoretical and methodological problems that still confront the study of modern sexualities, while also presenting a selection of theoretical and methodological issues of interest to both new and experienced researchers. This anthology identifies the need in contemporary social and cultural studies for more elaborate understandings of the relations of various masculinities and femininities to power, nation, empire, violence, race, class, and embodiment, and, in doing so, brings together an eclectic, multidisciplinary, and wide-ranging collection of essays. The various contributions to this book will appeal to social scientists (especially sociologists, psychologists and sexologists), biomedical scientists, health professionals and other academic and professional audiences, and students, researchers and instructors of sexuality studies. Undoubtedly, with this collection, sexuality studies comes of age as an academic field.
Book Synopsis Farmer First Revisited by : Ian Scoones
Download or read book Farmer First Revisited written by Ian Scoones and published by Practical Action Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world's most pressing issues- climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years ago, the Farmer First workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, launched a movement to encourage farmer participation in agricultural research and development (R & D), responding to farmers' needs in complex, diverse, risk-prone environments, and promoting sustainable livelihoods and agriculture. Since that time, methodological, institutional and policy experiments have unfolded around the world. Farmer First Revisited returns to the debates about farmer participation in agricultural R & D and looks to the future.The book presents a range of experiences that highlight the importance of going beyond a focus on the farm to a wider innovation system, including market interactions as well as the wider institutional and policy environment. If, however, farmers are really to be put first, a politics of demand is required in order to shape the direction of these innovative systems.
