Using Participatory Focus Groups Of Graduate Students To Improve Academic Departments: A Case Example

Authors

Deanna Linville, University of OregonFollow
Jennifer Lambert-Shute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityFollow
Christine A. Fruhauf, Colorado State UniversityFollow
Fred P. Piercy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityFollow

Abstract

The authors report on a participatory focus group evaluation of an academic department. The 20 participants, and the majority of the evaluators, were graduate students in that department. The authors report on their methods, their reflections, ethical issues they encountered and what they did about them, and how they used the results.

Keywords

Program Evaluation, Focus Groups, Graduate Students, and Academic Department

Publication Date

6-1-2003

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2003.1888

Recommended APA Citation

Linville, D., Lambert-Shute, J., Fruhauf, C. A., & Piercy, F. P. (2003). Using Participatory Focus Groups Of Graduate Students To Improve Academic Departments: A Case Example. The Qualitative Report, 8(2), 210-223. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2003.1888