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Overview
The Fourth Edition of the bestselling Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research offers an easy-to-ready overview of sound focus group practices.
Authors Richard A. Krueger & Mary Anne Casey describe how one can set up and conduct quality and effective focus group interviews. The process depicted is unbiased, non-judgmental and is respectful of all views. It is a deliberate and systematic way of listening that is helpful to public and private organizations as they listen to stakeholders, customers, and employees.
This book cuts through the theory and gives hand-on advice to those who are seeking to actually conduct a focus group. It is most helpful for conducting focus groups for research or evaluation with public, non-profit, educational, health, human service, and religious organizations.
Key Features
Intended Audience
This book is appropriate for a variety of research methods and evaluation courses in departments such as education, sociology, political science, journalism, business & marketing, public administration, and public health.
Planning a focus grp/particpants/moder- ating skills/reporting grp results/special audiences/etc.
Editorial Reviews
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"The best 'How To' focus groups book on the market."The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation - Robert G. Brunger
"The appearance of this timely new edition is likely to prove useful to a wide spectrum of potential users, including educators and students as well as researchers, planners, and evaluators in diverse fields of governmental operations, healthcare administration, education, and nonprofit organization management. Krueger and Casey have successfully provided users across many fields with exactly what the title describes: a practical guide for applied research."Booknews
This revised edition provides a step-by-step approach to planning and conducting successful focus groups. Includes suggestions for analyzing the data generated by such groups. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Judith Berkowitz
"Richard Krueger and Mary Anne Casey have prepared a detailed, step-by-step roadmap of how to design, prepare for, implement, analyze, and report on focus groups. They give detailed discussions of issues to consider, tips, and warnings to help prepare for the expected and unexpected. The book informs the novice focus group user and provides insight for the seasoned focus group practitioner."Nursing Times
"This book is packed with sound advice and detailed approaches, making this method a success. . . If you are even thinking about doing any kind of group interview, this is the place to start."From Preface - Richard A. Krueger & Mary Anne Casey
"We want people to listen to us. . . . Focus group interviewing is about listening. It is about paying attention. . . . being nonjudgmental. . . . When used appropriately, the process improves listening and the results can be used to benefit people who shared the information. And people go away feeling good about having been heard."Product Details
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Meet the Author
Richard Krueger, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus and senior fellow at the University of Minnesota. He spent 25 years with the University of Minnesota Extension Service serving as evaluation leader. Now he teaches qualitative research methods and program evaluation at the University of Minnesota. Although trained as a quantitative researcher, he was drawn to qualitative research. He has spent the last 30 years learning about, practicing, and teaching focus group interviewing.
Mary Anne Casey, Ph.D., is a consultant to government agencies and nonprofit organizations. She helps them design and conduct individual and group interviews as a way of listening to their employees and customers. The information is typically used to plan and evaluate programs. She has previously worked with the Kellogg Foundation, the University of Minnesota, and the State of Minnesota.
Table of Contents
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1. Overview of Focus Groups
2. Planning the Focus Group Study
3. Developing a Questioning Route
4. Participants in a Focus Group
5. Moderating Skills
6. Analyzing Focus Group Results
7. Reporting
8. Styles of Focus Group Research
9. Focus Group Interviews With Young People
10. International and Cross-Cultural Focus Groups Interviewing
11. Telephone and Internet Focus Group Interviewing
12. Focus Group Interviews Within the Organization
13. Modifications of Focus Groups
14. Answering Questions About the Quality of Focus Group Research