Using Focus Groups in Service-Learning: Implications for Practice and Research.

Schmiede, Angela E.

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ERIC Number: EJ552428

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Publication Date: 1995

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Using Focus Groups in Service-Learning: Implications for Practice and Research.

Schmiede, Angela E.

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v2 p63-71 Fall 1995

Discusses use of focus groups as qualitative research methodology and as reflection tool in service learning. Three focus groups at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) assessed cognitive outcomes of service-learning and encouraged students' reflection on their experience. Focus group data were triangulated with survey data to assess validity of focus groups as a data-gathering method.(Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, College Instruction, Focus Groups, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Information Processing, Qualitative Research, Service Learning, Small Group Instruction, Surveys, Validity

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Language: English

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