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Scarrow, Andrea; Fuhrman, Nicholas E.; Futris, Ted G. – Journal of Extension, 2015
Child welfare professionals (CWPs) who attended the Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education Training delivered by Extension educators in Georgia participated in focus groups 6 months post-training to investigate what elements of the training influenced their implementation of the concepts and their recommendations for future trainings. The…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Family Programs, Child Welfare, Focus Groups
Scott, Rachel Amanda Garner – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the perceptions that K-5 teachers have toward Georgia's mandated Early Intervention Math Program (EIP) on at risk learners in an elementary school in a rural, North Georgia community. The following questions guided the study: 1. How do K-5 teachers describe their experience with…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Rural Schools
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Rubenstein, Eric D.; Thoron, Andrew C. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2015
SAE programs were designed as an integral component in SBAE. However, participation has continued to decline. This qualitative study examined exemplary SAE programs in rural SBAE to discover factors that were working in SAE development and implementation. Through focus groups, individual and informal interviews, and observations, two themes that…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Rural Education, Program Development, Program Implementation
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King-McKenzie, Ethel; Delacruz, Stacy; Bantwini, Bongani; Bogan, Barry – School-University Partnerships, 2013
Co-teaching in teacher preparation is viewed as a promising practicefor fostering collaborative skills, increasing student participation, improvingclassroom instruction, and professional growth for all participants. Using focus group interviews as a unit of analysis, this article explores pre-service teachers' perceptions of co-teaching used in…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, College School Cooperation, College Faculty, Team Teaching
Treadwell, Julie Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem is that 5th-grade students are not achieving sufficient writing scores on Georgia state-mandated writing assessments, which the researcher hypothesized was due to the teacher-directed instructional approach utilized at the school. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine whether discovery learning, a method based on the…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Focus Groups, Discovery Learning, Writing Processes
Ransford-Kaldon, Carolyn R.; Flynt, E. Sutton; Ross, Cristin L.; Franceschini, Louis; Zoblotsky, Todd; Huang, Ying; Gallagher, Brenda – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2010
This report summarizes evaluation results for an efficacy study of the Leveled Literacy Intervention system (LLI) implemented in Tift County Schools (TCS) in Georgia and the Enlarged City School District of Middletown (ECSDM) in New York during the 2009-2010 school year. Developed by Fountas & Pinnell (2009) and published by Heinemann, LLI is…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Ward, Linda T. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In schools across America, school safety and student discipline remain primary concerns for all stakeholders in the education process. Researchers and educators suggest that implementing a school-wide discipline plan tailored to meet the needs of a particular school setting is one solution to the complex behavior management problem. The limited…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Discipline, School Safety
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Womble, Myra J.; Adams, J. Elaine; Stitt-Gohdes, Wanda L. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2000
Focus groups with 25 business and 18 marketing teachers and 6 business/industry representatives elicited the following opinions: the primary purpose of business/marketing education is work force preparation; dedicated faculty and administrative support are ideal features; a strong voice for vocational education is needed; and important skill areas…
Descriptors: Business Education, Educational Change, Focus Groups, Marketing
Karlin, Shary; Harnish, Dorothy – 1995
This report describes results of focus group evaluation of the first year of Georgia's CrossRoads program, an alternative public school program to provide chronically disruptive, committed, and/or non-attending students (grades 6-12) with the social services and individualized instruction they require and to make the public schools more secure by…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Disorders, Community, Focus Groups