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Involving Community Members in Focus Groups is a must for those who want to teach others to conduct focus group interviews, particularly non-researchers in communities. Authors Richard A. Krueger and Jean A. King draw upon years of experience working with communities and present practical strategies for working alongside non-researchers. Krueger and King argue that volunteers can often gather and present results more effectively than professionals; However, a critical element is how the volunteers are prepared and the manner in which they work together. This book offers countless tips, advice, and exercises for preparing people to conduct focus groups, whether you are preparing a team to conduct a community study or teaching one person to help in a study.
How to Involve Volunteers
How to Involve Volunteers
Overview
- Collaborative Focus Groups
- What do We Mean by “Volunteer”?
- What Brings Volunteers Together?
- Should you Undertake a Collaborative Study?
- The Collaborative Process
- —Consider the Alternatives
- —Prepare the Plan
- —Recruit Team Members
- Preparing the Team
- —Train the Team Experientially
- —Brief Training Schedule
- —Moderate Training Schedule
- —Extended Training Schedule
- Begin the Research
- —Make Assignments
- —Launch the Team
- The Training Plan
- Appendix: A Sample Training Plan
In this chapter, we will introduce the concept of collaborative focus groups, describe the critical players, offer suggestions on how to make collaboration successful, suggest a training curriculum, and then present an example of a training plan.
Collaborative Focus Groups
For the past several decades, if you wanted to conduct focus groups and didn't have the expertise, the only option available was to hire an outside expert. The outside expert would conduct the research, ...
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