scholarly journals Development, Feasibility, and Post-Training Outcomes of the STAC Teacher Training: A Companion Program for a Brief, Bystander Bullying Intervention

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Sequential Sampling ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Training Outcomes ◽  
Bullying Intervention ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Attitudes Toward Students

The purpose of this study was to develop a companion Teacher Training for a brief, bystander bullying intervention (STAC) and to assess feasibility and post-training outcomes. Although research supports the efficacy of the STAC intervention, training teachers to support student “defenders” may enhance the program’s impact. A mixed-methods design with sequential sampling was used with qualitative focus group data and quantitative survey data. The researchers used Consensual Qualitative Research to analyze qualitative data and independent sample t-tests to analyze qualitative data. Teachers (N =18) from one high school in an urban community were recruited for the study. We used a phased research approach to meet the study aims. In Phase 1, teachers participated in focus groups to develop content for the training. Qualitative themes that emerged included identification of barriers to intervening in bullying, gaps in teacher knowledge, suggestions for supporting students to report bullying to teachers, the need for a supportive school culture, and attitudes toward students who bully. In Phase 2, we created the STAC Teacher Training based on the literature and feedback from participants in Phase 1. The 50-minute training includes 1) normative feedback regarding beliefs about bullying, 2) a didactic component that includes information about bullying, a description of the student STAC strategies, and corresponding teacher strategies used to support student “defenders” and 3) an experiential component for strategy practice. In Phase 3, we trained a sub-set of teachers (N = 8) in the STAC Teacher Training to evaluate feasibility and post-training outcomes. Results supported training feasibility and teachers reported an increase in knowledge, confidence to support students to act as “defenders”, as well as confidence, comfort, and self-efficacy in intervening in bullying situations. This study serves as a first step in developing a companion Teacher Training for the STAC intervention.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a Brief, School-Based Bystander Bullying Intervention: A Pilot Study Conducted at an Ethnically-Blended, Low-Income School

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Hispanic Students ◽  
Sequential Sampling ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Social Validity ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Bullying Intervention

The purpose of this study was to adapt a brief, bystander bullying intervention to be culturally appropriate for ethnicallyblended schools in low-income communities and to assess the social validity of the adapted intervention. A mixed-methods design with sequential sampling was used to collect qualitative data from focus groups and quantitative survey data. The researchers used Consensual Qualitative Research to analyze qualitative data and chi square analyses and independent sample t-tests to analyzed qualitative data. Students (N = 40) from an ethnically-blended school (i.e., predominantly White and Hispanic students) in a low-income community were trained in the bystander bullying program. The 90-minute training includes a didactic and experiential component. The didactic component includes information about bullying and strategies students can use to intervene when they witness bullying. The experiential component includes small group activities and role-plays in which students practice utilizing the strategies. We used a phased research approach to meet the study aims. In Phase 1, students participated in focus groups after receiving the bystander training. Qualitative themes that emerged from the focus groups included students’ experiences with bullying, including types of bullying and reasons why students bully, negative emotions associated with bullying, fears related to reporting bullying to adults, and positive reactions to the intervention. In Phase 2, we adapted the intervention based on information from a literature search and feedback from participants in Phase 1. In Phase 3, we trained a new group of students (N = 63) in the adapted intervention to evaluate the intervention’s social validity. Results indicated students perceived the adapted intervention as appropriate and relevant for their school, with no differences between White and Hispanic students. This study serves as a first step in developing a culturally appropriate intervention designed to address bullying-related health disparities for students attending an ethnically-blended school in a low-income community

To live (code) or to not: A new method for coding in qualitative research

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 630-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uma D Parameswaran ◽  
Jade L Ozawa-Kirk ◽  
Gwen Latendresse
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
The Voice

Coding is an integral part of qualitative research for many scholars that use interview or focus group data. However, current practices in coding require transcription of audio/visual data prior to coding. Transcription before the coding process is an essential process for data analysis and even with meticulous detail, the nuances of nonverbal behavior found in audio and video data can be missed. In this article, we propose an alternative to coding with transcripts using a method called live coding which allows for simultaneous manual coding while listening or watching audio or video recording. We compared the method of live coding with transcript coding of text using focus group data from a perinatal telehealth group addressing depression. Based on the themes that emerged from analyzing the process, it is likely that live coding can be beneficial in preserving the voice of the participant especially used within focus group data. Live coding allowed us to see and hear the participants, an empowering process which allowed intent, context, and meaning of the words to be present in the results. Further study of live coding should include using digital tools for the analysis of qualitative data.

scholarly journals E-Assessment, Inequity and Accountability in the New Normal Era and Beyond in Nigerian Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Abdul-Wahab Ibrahim ◽  
Abdullahi Iliyasu
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Test Fairness ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
The Government ◽  
Descriptive Survey

The study examined the perceived conduct of e-assessment of undergraduate courses in Nigerian universities and compared access to e-assessment among undergraduate students in universities in the country. It also determined the relationship between e-assessment-based accountability and test fairness in the conduct of e-assessment in Nigerian universities. These were with a view to improving the assessment outcome directed towards certifying the quality in education by the Nigerian universities. The study adopted a mixed research approach combining both descriptive survey and focus group designs. The population consisted of all undergraduate students who registered for their degree courses at the government and privately-owned universities during 2019/2020 academic session. The sample consisted of intact classes of 450 Parts 2, 3, and 4 undergraduate students who registered for their degree courses. A 32-item self-developed instrument was used in the study. The qualitative data was collected via focus group. Data were analysed using independent t-test, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical methods. The results showed that there existed a significant difference in students’ perception of the conduct of e-assessment in Nigerian universities. Also, there was a significant difference in access to e-assessment among undergraduate students in the universities. Further, a significant relationship existed between e-assessment-based accountability and test fairness in the conduct of e-assessment in Nigerian universities. The study concluded that improper conduct of e-assessment forms a major threat to the fairness and validity of online assessment of students. It was recommended that universities’ Management should employ equitable strategies in the design, development and administration of the e-assessment on campuses in the country.

scholarly journals Focus Group Data and Qualitative Analysis Programs: Coding the Moving Picture as Well as the Snapshots

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Catterall ◽  
P. Maclaran
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Important Process ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Process Elements

Most qualitative data analysis programs include a code and retrieve function. We argue that on-screen coding and the retrieval of coded segments, or snapshots, can result in researchers missing important process elements in focus group data, the moving picture. We review the literature on the analysis of focus group data and conclude that the focus group is not simply a data gathering technique where data collected are analyzed for their specific content such as all text relating to a particular theme. Important and potentially insightful communication and learning processes occur in focus groups as a result of participant interaction. These processes in the data can only be identified by several readings of the whole transcript and tracing an individual's text in the context of other participants’ text; this is difficult to effect on-screen. Thus, we recommend that transcripts are coded on-screen for content and off-screen for process.

scholarly journals Personal development planning and ePortfolios in Speech Pathology:Student and staff perceptions

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-41
Author(s):  
Katrina Strampel ◽  
Abigail Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Speech Pathology ◽  
First Year ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Student Focus ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Student Questionnaire

This paper describes the evaluation of the use of an ePortfolio which was embedded across a speech pathology program and designed to enhance employability. Personal development planning (PDP) is a key part of employability and includes learning, reflection, goal setting and understanding the wider context. Students’ perceptions of their engagement in this process were evaluated using a mixed methods approach. Qualitative data was collected through student focus groups and individual staff interviews, while quantitative data was collected via a student questionnaire (reported in Lewis & Strampel, 2014). Qualitative data was analysed using NVivo following the six phases of thematic analysis described by Braun and Clarke (2006). This paper reports the themes which emerged from the focus group data. A key finding of the study was that the platform used was not ideal for the ePortfolio purpose causing frustration and negative reactions from students and colouring their engagement with, and enthusiasm for, the ePortfolio activities. Students achieved some of the objectives of personal development planning, especially goal-setting, but it was not until students were in their final year that they saw the links with their future career and employment. Further embedding of key tasks would enhance employability aspects, including for example involving industry from the first year and modelling the PDP process with students.

scholarly journals It’s Not All the Same: Implemented and Perceived HR Practices in the Volunteer Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734371X2199463
Author(s):  
Marlene Walk ◽  
Charity Scott ◽  
Laura Littlepage
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Strategic Human Resource Management ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Volunteer Retention ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
Hr Practices ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Focus Group Data

Being strategic and intentional in the management of volunteers is increasingly important to tackle volunteer retention and improve other volunteer outcomes. Drawing on strategic human resource management (SHRM), this inductive study utilizes qualitative data from interviews to explore how volunteers in a large youth organization perceive HR practices of training and recognition. Volunteer accounts are supplemented with focus group data from front-line staff to capture how HR practices are implemented. Findings indicate a disconnect between implemented and perceived HR practices in some, but not all, areas. Inconsistent and unintentional communication was the main driver for negative volunteer perceptions.

DAMPAK PROGRAM DIKLAT ONLINE TIK GURU PUSTEKKOM TERHADAP AKSESBILITAS KONTEN PEMBELAJARAN PADA FITUR RUMAH BELAJAR

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Eni Susilawati
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Online Training ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Intensity Level ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Ict Training ◽  
The Impact

The research objective is to analyze the impact of the participation of online  ICT teacher training to increase the number of accessibility the learning content of features in Rumah Belajar. This research used the quantitative research approach with descriptive quantitative analysis methods to be able to describe how the increase in accessibility features of Rumah Belajar and utilization in learning in school. Samples were selected in this study are all online training participants at 15 locations online training that has been conducted by Pustekkom in 2015 and 2016 in 2015. The data was collected using a questionnaire and a list of open questions in accordance with the purpose of research. The results showed that 1) online ICT teacher training participants, after completing the Pustekkom  training online  using become more motivated to access other feature in Rumah Belajar; 2) The order of the percentage of the intensity level of accessibility to the other features of Rumah Belajar are: Sumber Belajar 23%, BSE 23%, Bank Soal 21%, Kelas Maya 13%, Lab Maya 6%, Karya Guru 4%, Wahana Jelajah Angkasa 4%, Peta Budaya 4% and Karya Komunitas 2%, and ICT training online using the application PKB Rumah Belajar can be used as a reference for efforts to develop a web-based learning applications, in particular for the development of Rumah belajar portal belongs Pustekkom Kemendikbud. Tujuan penelitian yaitu untuk menganalisis dampak keikutsertaan diklat online  TIK guru Belajar terhadap peningkatan jumlah aksebilitas konten pembelajaran pada fitur-fitur rumah belajar. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan penelitian kuantitatif dengan metode analisis kuantitatif secara deskriptif untuk bisa menggambarkan bagaimana peningkatan aksesbilitas fitur-fitur rumah belajar dan pemanfaatannya dalam pembelajaran di sekolah. Sampel yang dipilih dalam penelitian ini adalah semua peserta diklat online  pada 15 lokasi diklat online yang telah dilaksanakan oleh Pustekkom pada tahun 2015 dan 2016. Pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner dan daftar pertanyaan terbuka sesuai dengan tujuan penelitian. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa 1) peserta diklat online TIK Guru, setelah mengikuti diklat online Pustekkom, menjadi lebih termotivasi untuk mengakses fitur-fitur lainnya dalam Rumah Belajar; 2) Urutan prosentase tingkat intensitas aksesbilitas terhadap fitur-fitur Rumbel selain Pengembangan Keprofesian berkelanjutan (PKB) adalah: Sumber Belajar 23%, Buku Sekolah Elektronik (BSE) 23%, Bank Soal 21%, Kelas Maya 13%, Lab Maya 6%, Karya Guru 4%, Wahana Jelajah Angkasa 4%, Peta Budaya 4% dan Karya Komunitas 2%; dan 3) diklat online TIK menggunakan aplikasi PKB. Rumah belajar bisa dijadikan referensi bagi upaya pengembangan aplikasi pembelajaran berbasis web, khususnya bagi pengembangan portal Rumah Belajar milik Pustekkom Kemendikbud.

scholarly journals Quantified Nostalgia: Social Media, Metrics, and Memory

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512110088
Author(s):  
Benjamin N. Jacobsen ◽  
David Beer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Memory Practices ◽  
The Relationship

As social media platforms have developed over the past decade, they are no longer simply sites for interactions and networked sociality; they also now facilitate backwards glances to previous times, moments, and events. Users’ past content is turned into definable objects that can be scored, rated, and resurfaced as “memories.” There is, then, a need to understand how metrics have come to shape digital and social media memory practices, and how the relationship between memory, data, and metrics can be further understood. This article seeks to outline some of the relations between social media, metrics, and memory. It examines how metrics shape remembrance of the past within social media. Drawing on qualitative interviews as well as focus group data, the article examines the ways in which metrics are implicated in memory making and memory practices. This article explores the effect of social media “likes” on people’s memory attachments and emotional associations with the past. The article then examines how memory features incentivize users to keep remembering through accumulation. It also examines how numerating engagements leads to a sense of competition in how the digital past is approached and experienced. Finally, the article explores the tensions that arise in quantifying people’s engagements with their memories. This article proposes the notion of quantified nostalgia in order to examine how metrics are variously performative in memory making, and how regimes of ordinary measures can figure in the engagement and reconstruction of the digital past in multiple ways.

scholarly journals When the Kids Are Not Alright: School Counseling in the Time of COVID-19

AERA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233285842110336
Author(s):  
Mandy Savitz-Romer ◽  
Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon ◽  
Tara P. Nicola ◽  
Emily Alexander ◽  
Stephanie Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
School Based ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
American Children

The unprecedented arrival of COVID-19 upended the lives of American children with rapid shifts to remote and hybrid schooling and reduced access to school-based support. Growing concerns about threats to students’ mental health and decreased numbers of students transitioning to postsecondary education suggest access to school counselors is needed more than ever. Although previous research on school counselors finds they promote positive postsecondary, social emotional, and academic outcomes for students, further studies highlight the organizational constraints, such as an overemphasis on administrative duties and unclear role expectations, that hinder their work. Drawing on survey and focus group data, our mixed methods study documents school counselors’ experiences during the COVID-19 crisis, including the opportunities and constraints facing their practice. Findings suggest there should be a concerted effort to reduce the role ambiguity and conflict in counselors’ roles so they are better able to meet students’ increased needs.

User-centered Requirements for Patient Fluid Intake Monitoring Support

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 736-740
Author(s):  
Ellen J. Bass ◽  
Andrew J. Abbate ◽  
Yaman Noaiseh ◽  
Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Fluid Intake ◽  
Fluid Consumption ◽  
Registered Dietitians ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data

There is a need to support patients with monitoring liquid intake. This work addresses development of requirements for real-time and historical displays and reports with respect to fluid consumption as well as alerts based on critical clinical thresholds. We conducted focus groups with registered nurses and registered dietitians in order to identify the information needs and alerting criteria to support fluid consumption measurement. This paper presents results of the focus group data analysis and the related requirements resulting from the analysis.

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