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While there are many books that address focus groups, most are directed at business and marketing. This book differs by demonstrating the specific steps necessary to conduct focus groups in educational and psychological settings. Using numerous examples, the authors show how to prepare for a focus group, create a moderator's guide, select a setting and analyze results. In addition, there is a chapter on focus groups with children and adolescents. Each chapter contains procedural tables as well as applications for performing `trial runs' of the techniques discussed.
Use of Focus Groups with Children and Adolescents
Use of Focus Groups with Children and Adolescents
Overview
As greater importance is placed on obtaining the consumer's point of view and as children and adolescents are becoming more valued as reporters of their own experiences (e.g., Kleiner, 1991), focus group interviews with nonadult populations as the participants are becoming more and more common. As consumers of educational and psychological services, children and adolescents provide unique and valuable perspectives for researchers, clinicians, and educators. Because of their varying developmental levels, when children and adolescents are employed as participants, special considerations and modifications must be made in the focus group interview format. These issues are described below.
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