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Tucciarone, Kristy – Community College Enterprise, 2008
The purpose of this qualitative study is to analyze how advertising affects a student's search and community college choice among the plethora of community colleges, career/technical schools, universities, and other influencers. The results of the research indicate that parents, friends, high school counselors, economics (i.e., money), and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Community Colleges, College Choice, School Counselors
Eden, Sally; Bear, Christopher; Walker, Gordon – Journal of Rural Studies, 2008
This paper uses evidence from focus groups with consumers in England to consider how consumers understand and evaluate a range of proxies or intermediary organisations that offer assurance about food and consumer products, particularly voluntary certification schemes. This addresses the current concern in developed economies about providing…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Certification, Food Standards
Cuthbert, Denise; Spark, Ceridwen – Studies in Higher Education, 2008
This article addresses an under-researched area of graduate studies: the role of writing groups in developing the research and publication potential of university graduates. Drawing on focus group discussions with participants from a pilot program conducted in the Arts Faculty at Monash University in Australia, the authors investigate the outcomes…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Pilot Projects, Focus Groups, Graduate Students
Dewart, Bonnie; Rowan, Linda – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2008
There has been increased interest in retention and completion with regard to tertiary student outcomes in relation to students' successful completion of their study and what influences this. In New Zealand, the government through the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has made it clear that it expects institutions to meet retention and completion…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, School Holding Power
Cameron, R. J.; Frederickson, Norah; Lunt, Ingrid; Lang, Jane – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2008
Continuing professional development (CPD) doctorate programmes may not be the only learning and development opportunities which universities and other organisations can provide for educational psychology practitioners (EPs). However, as Morris and Brightman pointed out in 2006, they are likely to continue as important sources for professional…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Focus Groups, Professional Training, Child Psychology
Pope, Nakia S.; Stemhagen, Kurt – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2008
Every year, it seems, there are cries that foundations of education is in peril. A panel at the recent meetings of American Educational Studies Association (AESA) focused on the fate of foundations in teacher education programs. At this panel, foundations scholars engaged in lively conversation about how to protect and promote foundations of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Foundations of Education, Required Courses, Resistance to Change
Neuman, Susan B.; Khan, Nafizuddin; Dondolo, Thamsanqa – Reading Teacher, 2008
Under the auspices of the International Reading Association, an evaluation was conducted of Rural Education and Development (READ) program of creating community libraries in Nepal. READ set out to address the high rates of illiteracy and poverty in Nepal through the development of these libraries. To examine READ's approach, a team of…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Social Development
Slater, Charles L.; Garcia, Jose Maria; Gorosave, Gema Lopez – Journal of Educational Administration, 2008
Purpose: This case study is an attempt to understand the experience of a school principal, Arnulfo. The research question is: what are the challenges of one first-year school director in Baja California, Mexico? Design/methodology/approach: Arnulfo participated in an interview and five focus groups at the Ensenada State Normal School. He kept a…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Human Resources
Tariq, V. N.; Jackson, V. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2008
The objective of this study was to evaluate "biomathtutor" by (i) investigating the impact of "biomathtutor" on the mathematics skills competencies of bioscience undergraduates, and (ii) assessing students' and tutors' reactions to "biomathtutor", identifying whether and how tutors might integrate it into their curricula and blend it with more…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Intervention, Focus Groups, Mathematics Achievement
Hepworth, Mark; Smith, Marian – Australian Library Journal, 2008
A joint project carried out by Leeds University and Loughborough University, funded by JISC, studied the information literacy of non academic staff in higher education. The in-depth, qualitative study deployed an information audit, interviews and focus groups with eleven staff in the Finance and Research Departments at Loughborough University. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Focus Groups, Information Literacy, Information Skills
Strand, Steve; Winston, Joe – Educational Studies, 2008
This research aimed to assess the nature and level of pupils' educational aspirations and to elucidate the factors that influence these aspirations. A sample of five inner city comprehensive secondary schools were selected by their local authority because of poor pupil attendance, below-average examination results and low rates of continuing in…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Focus Groups, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
Rhodes, Christopher; Brundrett, Mark; Nevill, Alan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2008
This article reports on outcomes from a study funded by the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) designed to explore leadership talent identification, development, succession and retention in contextually different primary and secondary schools in England. Focus groups and a questionnaire were used to secure perceptions of heads, middle…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Career Planning, Focus Groups
Dooner, Anne-Marie; Mandzuk, David; Clifton, Rodney A. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
Although professional learning communities are often promoted as unique learning opportunities, little is known about how they get started and how they are sustained. For this reason, group members are often unprepared, and then frustrated, by inevitable group tensions. With this in mind, Karl Weick's [(1979). "The social psychology of…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Group Dynamics, Interprofessional Relationship, Middle School Teachers
McPhail, Christine Johnson; Robinson, Mary; Scott, Harriette – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
This study examined how graduate students enrolled in a university-based cohort community college leadership doctoral program perceived their leadership development experiences. A total of 50 doctoral students enrolled in the Morgan State University (MSU) doctoral program were surveyed. A separate group of students (20) participated in a focus…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Focus Groups, Doctoral Programs, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Mushquash, Christopher J.; Stewart, Sherry H.; Comeau, Nancy; McGrath, Patrick J. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2008
Objective: The factor structure of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised (DMQ-R; Cooper, 1994) was examined in a sample of First Nations (i.e., Mi'kmaq) adolescents. Results: Exploratory principal components analysis indicated a three-factor structure (conformity, coping, and positive reinforcement motives), with the positive reinforcement…
Descriptors: Age, Focus Groups, Drinking, Factor Structure