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Listening to Parents: Sample Focus Group and Survey Materials. Overview. The Student Assessment Inventory for School Districts supports using a student-centered process to evaluate the assessments students currently take and then determine the minimum testing necessary to serve essential diagnostic, instructional and accountability purposes.
This resource is designed to guide districts in the steps necessary to design and use focus groups and surveys to incorporate teacher perspectives, experiences and expertise in the inventory process. It includes two types of information. CC BY 4.0 Achieve 2015. Districts may use or adapt.
Between September and December of 2016, PTAC conducted 24 focus groups on teacher training for student privacy issues, each lasting approximately 60 to 75 minutes. Focus group participants were volunteers, uncompensated for their time. Where possible, focus groups were held in person, but the majority were conducted virtually, via conference call.
Presents an easy to follow guide on how to conduct focus groups with students, teachers, and school faculty by providing detailed answers, tips, and best practices. Includes strategies to refine research questions and step-by-step details for analyzing data.
A focus group is a group interview involving a small number (sometimes up to ten) of demographically predefined participants. Their reactions to specific researcher/evaluator-posed questions are studied. Focus groups are used in market research to better understand people's reactions to products or services or participants' perceptions of ...
Participants in focus group discussions constitute a “purposive” sample of the target population (Lederman, 1990), and the number of participants in a focus group can range from 6 to 12 people. Focus groups can be used alone or in combination with other methods [1]. Compared to surveys and interviews, focus groups can provide richer
Our study sample consisted of 350 African-American men living in Durham, North Carolina. Participants were randomized into either a focus group arm or individual interview arm, and were asked the same open-ended questions about their health-care seeking behavior.
It includes two types of information: (1) Instructions--Achieve recommends following a set of steps to design, build, use and analyze student surveys and focus groups to effectively incorporate this information in the inventory process and build toward actionable recommendations; and (2) Inventory Tools--This resource provides student focus ...