| Shows allowed the natural course of events to dictate their decisions, not some focus group falderal. |
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| The education focus group discussed core curriculums for specialty nursing groups. |
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| In general, focus group discussions consisted of honest, open and frank opinions of what the students thought about the class. |
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| The pupils in that focus group had clearly read the booklets and found the information helpful and credible. |
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| The following table groups topics that people in the focus group mentioned as of high interest to them. |
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| In our next focus group we will be concentrating more on feedback from a female audience. |
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| Interviews and focus group discussions were audio taped and later transcribed for analysis. |
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| One focus group of women wanted a smaller wedge for estimating pie or cake servings. |
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| You see, for a couple of years in the mid 1990s I had the chance to participate in a ThinkPad focus group. |
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| Apparently the movie was put to a focus group to get an idea of what people would think of it. |
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| He had organized a focus group of Democratic voters for a recent presidential debate. |
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| She said further meetings with a working group, referred to by MARA as a focus group, would be held in January. |
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| Better to use your family as a political sounding board than a focus group in a front room in Luton. |
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| A focus group of society members discussed the issue, and the majority favoured banning A-boards. |
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| A guide containing open-ended questions was developed to steer the focus group discussions. |
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| Think of the money we'll make by eliminating the risk of acts that aren't the product of a focus group! |
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| Of course, the people recruited to participate are critical to the success of the focus group. |
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| Three constructions of sovereignty were produced through the focus group discussion. |
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| The focus group will never tell the political leader and it will never tell the newspaper editor. |
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| People can make their point to the council by post, on the internet, over the phone or as part of a focus group. |
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| Another general point about the focus group method is that, while it is gaining in popularity at the moment, it is by no means a new technique. |
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| The focus group meetings and feedback from patients and carers led to significant changes in the information leaflets. |
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| During the focus group discussions, which were guided but never led, the subtleties of such terms were explored more fully. |
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| If grilled about it in a focus group, I'd admit that the pretensions and some of the practices of social research make me uneasy. |
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| Before pretesting the questionnaire, 13 focus group sessions were conducted with children of a similar background. |
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| These data can be compared with qualitative internal focus group data collected from majors close to graduation. |
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| We readily accepted, and took delivery of the pilot showreel the next day for an internal focus group. |
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| Students in the focus group also commented on the cases being scheduled on Friday, and that this allowed a welcome change of pace. |
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| It helped us out a lot to do our first focus group and have people tell us how much they liked the music. |
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| All focus group discussions were transcribed and annotated with contemporaneous field notes. |
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| The staff are assisted by a focus group and a number of external advisers and researchers. |
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| Data from a focus group yields a construction of sovereignty that is analysed discursively. |
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| Each time members participate in a survey or focus group, they will receive an incentive. |
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| You may have heard of or even participated in a focus group. |
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| Eight patients and six spouses participated in a focus group. |
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| We observed the ease of communication among focus group women, with one group even claiming that the data collection exercise was therapeutic in itself. |
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| As noted in Chapter 16, focus group research is often described as more natural than qualitative interviewing because it emulates the way people discuss issues in real life. |
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| The on-line survey, and individual and focus group discussion interview guide, were divided into three sections. |
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| This focus group is being recorded onto an audiotape to help ensure that we accurately capture your feedback. |
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| Feeling down in the dumps or melancholy was a common feeling that surfaced in every focus group. |
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| More than a year before his dream for the North was shot down in flames, Ministers were warned in focus group research that scepticism in the three Northern regions was rife. |
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| The CNN focus group found that the intense awkward interjections alienated swing voters and women in particular. |
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| If the findings of a focus group conducted this week are any indication, a steep one indeed. |
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| Whether or not their decisions would pass muster in a poll or focus group is precisely beside the point. |
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| On June 28, Steve Deace, a right-wing activist and media personality in Iowa, held a focus group of undecided conservative voters. |
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| Sean Hannity teed off on NPR, and had pollster Frank Luntz ask a focus group whether Williams was fired unfairly. |
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| However, focus group respondents tended to describe the documents they received as dense and legalistic. |
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| Most focus group participants' recollections of the card holder agreements they received are of dense, legalistic and impractical documents. |
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| A focus group meeting is a conversation between members of the group about a certain topic or set of topics. |
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| The focus group participants assigned variable importance to their water bill and the accuracy of their water meters. |
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| The 15 members of the group are responsible for organising the meeting of the focus group in their own country. |
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| Like focus group results, evaluations should be shared with the group and used to recognize and reward performance improvement. |
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| Please note that you should never have to pay money to attend a research focus group or to get on a legitimate research focus group list. |
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| He is also chair of a focus group for redefining our Ladner Harbour business area. |
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| Most focus group participants who used JCP felt their JCP job gave them organization and time-management skills as well as more confidence. |
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| Such a focus group would itself constitute a research project, and would require ethics review. |
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| Participants were asked to complete a survey questionnaire at the end of the focus group sessions. |
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| It may be useful to ask children at the end of an interview or focus group how they have felt to talk about these issues. |
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| Before you agree to take part in this focus group, it is important that you understand the following information. |
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| It takes time to perform ethnographic research correctly and to build the level of intimacy that takes researchers beyond what they could learn in a focus group setting. |
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| The threat comes not from some Whitehall johnny-come-lately, nor some politically correct illiterate chair of a focus group, seeking his day in the Sun. |
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| Your focus group data file should be alphabetized according to theme. |
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| If they say they grind fresh beans for their coffee every morning, a box is checked off on a survey form, and follow up questions are asked in a focus group. |
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| To design the course, they enlisted a focus group of 28 pro skateboarders. |
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| A hastily and unscientifically convened focus group of 14-year-olds at a youth centre in the Pilton area of Edinburgh confirmed the experts' view. |
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| A key point to emerge from the focus group discussions is that this process provides an end in itself precisely because it boosts self-confidence and sense of worth. |
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| The focus group discussions formed the third and final stage of data gathering: collecting information on typical food and cash budgets for households within each wealth group. |
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| Findings from focus group interviews suggest explanations of the early fertility pattern. |
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| In addition the author examines virtual focus groups and discusses managing and understanding focus group data. |
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| In addition we ensured that participants had not been to a focus group or discussion group within the past six months and had not been to five or more such groups in their lifetime. |
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| To be valid, a focus group had to have a minimum of five members. |
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| This focus group was limited to four people. |
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| Focus group discussions: A focus group discussion usually involves 6 to 12 persons guided by a facilitator, during which group members talk freely and spontaneously about a certain topic. |
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| However, at the time of the evaluation, the report summarizing the discussions and findings from the focus group sessions had not yet been finalized or disseminated. |
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| He can't make it on a focus group, and without the pro-Richard claque in the audience, all would have been lost. |
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| Angela and Sofia, two Mexican-born house cleaners, were my focus group. |
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| Regarding debt levels, focus group participants were more concerned about their ability to repay student loan debt than about the amount of debt incurred. |
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| In Ealing, our focus group laughed sarcastically when he spoke. |
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| Nevertheless, our focus group participants stressed the importance of individuals' taking some responsibility for protecting their e-mail address and refraining from replying to spam. |
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| These findings from the quantitative analysis suggest that the majority of requests for service fall into the moderate and high priority levels which is not consistent with the finding from the focus group sessions. |
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| However, it is hoped that all the focus group participants will see in this document many of the dilemmas and directions that they discussed with such energy and candour. |
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| The daim of a particular publicness to shopping malls by the youth of the focus group and thus the public-private dichotomy is also examined. |
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| A focus group should not attempt to cover too many questions, otherwise the moderator will have to rush through certain topics, which defeats the purpose of the group. |
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| These discussion groups are with eight to ten people for about two hours and are held in a professional focus group facility or online through a chat discussion forum. |
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| The example below is from a focus group discussion form. |
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| One main component of this project was a focus group for youth with disabilities to explore the availability of programs, services, and supports for youth. |
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| Potential research subjects might be involved in the design of the research procedure and questionnaire, perhaps through participation in a focus group. |
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| This was apparent, not only from the direct advice, but also from comments regarding their pleasure and satisfaction at being in the caregivers' focus group. |
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| In our 2003 focus group research, Canadian parents consistently said they are looking for information and tools so they can become more involved in their kids' media activities. |
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| Most focus group participants also felt that their program experience was helpful, but felt that the program did not do enough to help them find work. |
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| Not necessarily, is how our focus group results would best be interpreted. |
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| In opening up a subject for investigation, a group of children could be asked to take part in a focus group discussion with the aim of identifying the areas that are of particular concern to children around this topic. |
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| In a focus group discussion with seven men and six women from the village health committee, participants said that their main MCC-driven activity was clearing bushes and other mosquito breeding sites. |
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| As focus group sessions continue across the country, FITT is also welcoming experts from all over North America and the world to participate in subsequent project phases. |
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| Recruiting a focus group comprising children, parents and carers can also be a useful way to ensure that the practice is stocking frames of suitable appeal. |
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