Focus-group research for school improvement
Subtitle: what are they thinking?
By: Joseph D. Latess.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781578867806; 9781578867813
Subjects: Education -- Research -- Methodology; Focused group interviewing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Schools as organizations; title: A brief history of focus-group research; title: Silenced voices; title: Causes for silence; title: Efforts to hear the voices; title: The focus-group process : an ideal method for breaking the silence; title: Focus-group design; title: Procedures for conducting focus-groups; title: Social constructions and context underlying the focus-group process; title: Data presentation and action-plan development; title: Application of the process : the focus-group process tool; title: Other tools of the trade; title: Reflections.