Assessing educational effectiveness: The focus group interview as a technique for data collection<sup>1</sup>

Lederman, Linda C.

doi:10.1080/03634529009378794

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“…• Focus group interviews of groups of students located within travelling distance of the university and following methodologies described in Lederman (1990). These interviews aimed to probe deeply into students' beliefs, feelings, thoughts and behaviour when using the software.…”

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Mathematics for Maths Anxious Tertiary Students: Integrating the cognitive and affective domains using interactive multimedia

Taylor

Galligan

2011

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Today, commencing university students come from a diversity of backgrounds and have a broad range of abilities and attitudes. It is well known that attitudes towards mathematics, especially mathematics anxiety, can affect students' performance to the extent that mathematics is often seen as a barrier to success by many. This paper reports on the design, development and evaluation of an interactive multimedia resource designed to explicitly address students' beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics by following five characters as they progress through the highs and low of studying a preparatory mathematics course. The resource was built within two theoretical frameworks, one related to effective numeracy teaching (Marr and Helme 1991) and the other related to effective educational technology development (Laurillard 2002). Further, it uses a number of multimedia alternatives (video, audio, animations, diarying, interactive examples and self assessment) to encourage students to feel part of a group, to reflect on their feelings and beliefs about mathematics, to expose students to authentic problem solving and generally build confidence through practice and self-assessment. Evaluation of the resource indicated that it encouraged students to value their own mathematical ability and helped to build confidence, while developing mathematical problem solving skills. The evaluation clearly demonstrated that it is possible to address the affective domain through multimedia initiatives and that this can complement the current focus on computer mediated communication as the primary method of addressing affective goals within the online environment.

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Mathematics for Maths Anxious Tertiary Students: Integrating the cognitive and affective domains using interactive multimedia

Taylor

Galligan

2011

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“…Se trata de jóvenes universitarios o de formación universitaria, con edades comprendidas entre los 18 y los 23 años, de hábitat urbano, usuarios o ex usuarios de redes sociales online, que las utilizan o utilizaban de forma cotidiana, a través de diferentes tipos de dispositivos de conexión. El sentirse entre personas de características similares hace que los participantes se sientan cómodos en el grupo y crea el contexto en que se da la libertad para discutir abiertamente pensamientos, sentimientos, conductas, y para expresar ideas socialmente impopulares o provocadoras (Lederman, 1990).…”

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A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen

Andersen

2007

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A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen. By Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Molly Andolina, Krista Jenkins, and Michael X. Delli Carpini. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 253p. $19.00. Should we be really worried about declining public engagement? Or should we accept that it is merely changing shape? This book describes substantial alterations in the ways Americans are involved in public life, particularly younger citizens, and analyzes a wide range of empirical data with the goal of understanding the implications—both negative and positive—of these emerging patterns of participation.

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“…However the richness of the generated data provoked post-conceptualisation of some valuable emergent categories for example exploratory and clarification comments. This methodology is a hybrid of the more simplified variety of analytical approaches as described by Lederman (1990), which do not seek to merge pre-determined and emergent categorisation. …”

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Making a CASE for Using the Students Choice of Software or Systems Development Tools

Howell¹

2004

IISIT

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This positioning paper focuses on the selection of software for educational purposes and how the selection process may encourage usage. Computer Aided Software or Systems Engineering (CASE) tools provided an appropriate e software example for this study. The paper also seeks to examine if the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) such as CASE can aid the students' understanding of systems analysis and design techniques. Entity relationship modelling has been used as the primary technique. Focus groups comprising postgraduate and undergraduate students were used as the main data collection instrument supported by a pre and post assessment test.The findings provided a clear indication of which CASE tool the participants found easiest to use and which tool they were interested in using. It was further found that some tools have unique properties that may assist the user in their understanding. This paper also provides a valuable platform for defining future research in this area.

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Assessing educational effectiveness: The focus group interview as a technique for data collection¹

Cited by 208 publications

References 8 publications

Mathematics for Maths Anxious Tertiary Students: Integrating the cognitive and affective domains using interactive multimedia

Mathematics for Maths Anxious Tertiary Students: Integrating the cognitive and affective domains using interactive multimedia

A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen

Making a CASE for Using the Students Choice of Software or Systems Development Tools

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Assessing educational effectiveness: The focus group interview as a technique for data collection1

Cited by 208 publications

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Mathematics for Maths Anxious Tertiary Students: Integrating the cognitive and affective domains using interactive multimedia

Mathematics for Maths Anxious Tertiary Students: Integrating the cognitive and affective domains using interactive multimedia

A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen

Making a CASE for Using the Students Choice of Software or Systems Development Tools

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