Open AccessUsing Participatory Focus Groups Of Graduate Students To Improve Academic Departments: A Case Example
Author(s) -
Deanna Linville,
Jennifer Lambert-Shute,
Christine A. Fruhauf,
Fred P. Piercy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2003.1888
Subject(s) - focus group , graduate students , medical education , citizen journalism , participatory action research , academic department , psychology , focus (optics) , sociology , pedagogy , higher education , medicine , political science , physics , anthropology , optics , law
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.