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Secrest, Laura A.; Lassiter, Shana L.; Armistead, Lisa P.; Wyckoff, Sarah C.; Johnson, Jacqueline; Williams, Winona B.; Kotchick, Beth A. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2004
We examine the issues involved in creating and maintaining a successful collaboration between university-based researchers and community members when designing and implementing the Parents Matter! Program (PMP). The roles of focus groups, community advisory boards, and community liaisons are highlighted. PMP provides an illustration of the ongoing…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Community Involvement, Program Design, Program Development
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Schwartz, Tammy A. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
This study addresses urban Appalachian girls and identities as constructed within and outside of the written discourses of the institution known as school. Drawing on poststructuralist (Weedon, 1997) and sociocultural (Gee, 1996) perspectives of language, identities and discourses (Gee, 1996), and on the feminist philosopher Griffiths (1995), it…
Descriptors: Females, Urban Areas, Self Concept, Writing (Composition)
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Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2004
The first day's session of the 2003 Brookings conference on education concluded with a roundtable discussion of the obstacles to recruiting new teachers into the profession, especially for urban schools. The discussion, moderated by Diane Ravitch, began with informal presentations by two people who have been deeply involved in addressing this…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Competencies, Teacher Education
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Seyfried, Nancy Hergenrother; Diamantes, Thomas – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
The purpose for conducting this study was to explore, with credentialed and qualified women educators, career paths in educational administration. The research was qualitative. Data were collected through focus groups and mailed surveys. Six persons attended two focus groups that lasted approximately 90 minutes each. The interaction of the members…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation, Focus Groups
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Fredland, Nina M.; Ricardo, Izabel B.; Campbell, Jacquelyn C.; Sharps, Phyllis W.; Kub, Joan K.; Yonas, Michael – Journal of School Violence, 2005
This article reports qualitative findings of seven focus groups that illuminate the phenomenon of dating and dating violence from the perspective of the young adolescent. This study was part of a larger intervention project, "An Arts-Based Initiative for the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls," a collaboration of the Centers…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Violence, Prevention, Focus Groups
Guerra, Ingrid; Bernardez, Mariano; Jones, Michael; Zidan, Suhail – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2005
This case study illustrates the application of Mega--adding measurable value for all stakeholders including society--as the central and ultimate focus for needs assessment. In this case, two needs assessment studies were conducted within a five-year period (1999-2003) with the State of Ohio's Workforce Development (WD) program. An initial needs…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Quality of Life, Program Effectiveness, Labor Force Development
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Hohman, Melinda; King, Wendy D. – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2004
Alcohol and other drug (AOD) counselors often must work collaboratively with other social service agencies, one of which is Child Protective Services (CPS). This study describes a pilot program developed to address AOD/CPS collaborative work, along with the challenges in providing collaborative work. Five AOD Studies interns were placed at a…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Pilot Projects, Focus Groups, Child Welfare
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Hegamin, Angela; Farabee, David – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
The present study sought to identify drug treatment issues unique to corrections-based residential drug treatment programs for youthful offenders. Based upon qualitative data collected from program administrators and wards at three institution-based substance abuse treatment programs in California, four themes were identified which hold important…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Rehabilitation
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Guo, Yan – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2005
Peer evaluation has been criticized as a threat to academic freedom and has been used, usually erroneously, as a justification for academic reappointment, tenure promotion, and merit pay. In recent years, scholars have recommended that peer consultation, which is primarily designed to improve teaching, be honored, but apart from evaluation. In…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Speech Communication, Academic Freedom, Peer Evaluation
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Nguyen, Tuyen D. – Qualitative Report, 2004
This grounded theory qualitative study investigated the major influencing factors in the United States that empowered six Vietnamese women who had been in abusive relationships to take actions, to make changes in their intimate relationships, unlike many of their abused counterparts in their homeland. Interviews of two focus group sessions,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Influences, Empowerment
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Pang, Elaine C.; Jordan-Marsh, Maryalice; Silverstein, Merril; Cody, Michael – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: This study reported a qualitative analysis of health-seeking behaviors of community-dwelling elderly Chinese Americans on the influences of family network, cultural values, and immigrant experience in their use of health resources. Barriers to health care, pathway of health care, and adaptation of health care by use of self-treatment and…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Focus Groups, Questionnaires, Older Adults
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Govaerts, Marjan J. B.; van der Vleuten, Cees P. M.; Schuwirth, Lambert W. T.; Muijtjens, Arno M. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2005
Introduction: In health science education clinical clerkships serve the twofold purpose of guiding student learning and assessment of performance. Evidently, both formative and summative assessment procedures are needed in clerkship assessment. In-training evaluation (ITE) has the potential to serve both assessment functions. Implementation of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Focus Groups, Obstetrics, Measurement Techniques
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Foster, Rosemary – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
There is a relative absence of research that documents ways principals and other school members construct the concept of leadership and understand its relationship to school improvement. School improvement here is defined as the enhancement of student learning, through focusing on the teaching-learning process and the conditions that support it…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Instructional Leadership, Case Studies, Instructional Effectiveness
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Mallard, Kina S.; Atkins, Michele W. – Christian Higher Education, 2004
Many small Christian colleges and universities are changing their cultures from focusing solely on teaching to embracing a teacher-scholar model. Motivating faculty at these small colleges to engage in scholarly activities is becoming one of the top priorities of administration. The culture at private colleges with enrollments of less than 5000 is…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Private Colleges, Church Related Colleges, Christianity
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Rhodes, Christopher; Nevill, Alan; Allan, Jo – Journal of In-service Education, 2005
This article reports on the evaluation of an accredited programme to enhance the early professional development of newly qualified teachers within the Black Country region of the English West Midlands. Newly qualified teachers participating in the accredited programme, their induction tutors, newly qualified teachers not participating in the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Job Satisfaction, Beginning Teacher Induction, Professional Development
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