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Jayanthi, Madhavi; Nelson, Janet S. – 2002
This book is a guide is for school practitioners who want to know more about planning and conducting focus groups as an aid to decision-making. It emphasizes practical and cost-effective ways to ensure accurate results. After defining the focus group, chapter 1 offers ways focus groups can be used in schools and reasons for using them. Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Decision Making, Discussion Groups, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkSomekh, Bridget, Ed.; Lewin, Cathy, Ed. – SAGE Publications (UK), 2005
This book is intended as a resource and an indispensable companion to welcome educators into the community of social science research. While it is recognized that some methodological frameworks are incompatible with others, the overarching premise of the book is to indicate how a wide range of researchers choose a methodology and methods which are…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Ethnography, Ethics
Witkin, Belle Ruth; Altschuld, James W. – 1995
This book describes a structure for understanding and managing the process and options for gathering and analyzing data on needs. The three-phase model that forms the basis for the structure grew from both theory and practical experience in many settings. The focus is on assessing the needs of organizations rather than individuals. It is stressed…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Focus Groups
Bleiweis, Maxine – 1997
Public libraries are often a vastly underused resource for businesses and business people. This book shows librarians how to aggressively pursue businesses until they turn naturally to libraries for their information needs. The book provides a step-by-step process which teaches librarians how to identify the information needs of businesses,…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Community Development, Economic Development, Focus Groups
Knowles, Cynthia R. – 2001
This book helps educators produce assessments of their schools' drug and violence prevention programs. It contains over 30 separate resources that can be adapted to specific evaluations (e.g., sample youth and adult participant feedback sheets, sample classroom observation sheets and teacher implementation logs, sample en-route participant…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Latta, Raymond F.; Downey, Carolyn J. – 1994
This book presents a wide array of sophisticated problem-solving tools and shows how to use them in a humanizing way that involves all stakeholders in the process. Chapter 1 develops the rationale for educational stakeholders to consider quality tools. Chapter 2 highlights three quality group-process tools--brainstorming, the nominal group…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Diagrams, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
