ENGAGING STUDENTS AS CO-RESEARCHERS TO CONDUCT FOCUS GROUPS WITH OLDER PEOPLE

Gathering Requirements for Mobile Devices using Focus Groups with Older People

Dedicated mobile devices have considerable potential for supporting older people in their day-today lives; devices such as memory aids, security alarms and navigation aids gain much of their utility from the security they provide by being with the user all the time. The imperative for developing such devices stems not only from their potential for supporting older people in maintaining their in...

Doing synchronous online focus groups with young people: methodological reflections.

Although online focus groups are emerging as a worthwhile methodological approach for qualitative researchers, reporting has been constrained in several ways. The majority of studies report asynchronous groups, whereas others employ synchronous exchanges, the efficacy of which with young people has seldom been explored. Considering the popularity of the Internet as a communication tool for youn...

Engaging Students with Audio Feedback

Students express widespread dissatisfaction with academic feedback. Teaching staff perceive a frequent lack of student engagement with written feedback, much of which goes uncollected or unread. Published evidence shows that audio feedback is highly acceptable to students but is underused. This paper explores methods to produce and deliver audio feedback to a range of students engaged in a vari...

Constant focus: Engaging to measure wealth

This essay is intended to place the selection of my papers in this issue of the SJIAOS in the context of other research on wealth measurement and to provide an overview of their part in the history of the constant focus in the Survey of Consumer Finances to engage in measuring wealth more effectively. It also makes some recommendations for future work on that survey and possibly other systems o...

Focus Groups as Qualitative Research