2016 Harnessing the Power of a Focus Group
This session explores the use of focus groups as powerful mechanism to elicit feedback from parents, teachers, students, and community members. In turn, the data collected can be used to inform data-driven decision making.
Objectives:
Objectives:
- Participants will discuss how focus groups can be an effective way to collect information from stakeholders
- Participants will learn to how to design focus group protocols and procedures
- Participants will learn to how to conduct focus groups
- Participants will learn how to analyze focus group data
- Participants will learn how to disseminate focus group findings
Resources:
Using Parent Focus Groups for School Improvement
http://www.magnet.edu/files/2013-conferences/using-parent-focus-groups.pdf
Conducting Focus Groups to Develop a Comprehensive School Portrait
http://www.niusileadscape.org/docs/FINAL_PRODUCTS/LearningCarousel/conductingfocusgroupsfinal.pdf
Putting Kids on the Pathway to College Focus Group Protocol for Students
http://annenberginstitute.org/sites/default/files/BTOProtocolStudents.pdf
Edmunds, H. (2000). The focus group research handbook. McGraw-Hill.
Krueger, R. A., & Casey, M. A. (2014). Focus groups: A practical guide for applied research. Sage publications.
Morgan, D. L. (1996). Focus groups as qualitative research (Vol. 16). Sage publications.
Using Parent Focus Groups for School Improvement
http://www.magnet.edu/files/2013-conferences/using-parent-focus-groups.pdf
Conducting Focus Groups to Develop a Comprehensive School Portrait
http://www.niusileadscape.org/docs/FINAL_PRODUCTS/LearningCarousel/conductingfocusgroupsfinal.pdf
Putting Kids on the Pathway to College Focus Group Protocol for Students
http://annenberginstitute.org/sites/default/files/BTOProtocolStudents.pdf
Edmunds, H. (2000). The focus group research handbook. McGraw-Hill.
Krueger, R. A., & Casey, M. A. (2014). Focus groups: A practical guide for applied research. Sage publications.
Morgan, D. L. (1996). Focus groups as qualitative research (Vol. 16). Sage publications.