Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
A Versatile Interactive Focus Group Protocol for Qualitative Assessments
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Abstract
A highly flexible focus group protocol captures efficiently and economically useful data for immediate and longitudinal course and program assessment. Special features include an index card activity that deals with satisfactions levels and a Roundtable/Ranking activity that allows participant-generated judgments about the most positive and the most negative features of a course or program. These latter activities, with data displayed in an Excel histogram and in a colored-coded Word table, can be used for what is called a “Quick Course Diagnosis” (QCD).
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