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- Subject: Re: Focus Group experience anyone?? (*MBU*) (8)
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- Karen,
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- I'm a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and have been
- researching focus group methods as a rhetorical strategy. Here is a
- short bibliography I compiled last semester (most of these are culled
- from marketing sources--I believe there's a whole wealth of articles on
- focus groups as used in education, which I didn't pursue):
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- Bers, Trudy H. (1989). The popularity and problems of focus-group
- research. The Journal of the American Association of Collegiate
- Registrars, 64, 3, 260-268.
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- Brown, R. (1989). Structural aspects of groups. Group processes:
- dynamics within and between groups. NY: Basil Blackwell.
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- Buttram, Joan L. (1990). Focus Groups: A Starting Point for Needs
- Assessment. Paper presented in Boston at annual meeting of American
- Educational Research Association.
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- Fern, Edward F. (1982). The Use of Focus Groups for Idea Generation:
- The Effects of Group Size, Acquaintanceship, and Moderator on Response
- Quantity and Quality. Journal of Marketing Research, XIX, 1-13.
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- _____. (1981, October). Why do focus groups work: a review and
- integration of small group process theories. Advances in Consumer
- Research Proceedings, vol. 9, 12th Annual Conference, p. 444-451,
- Bibliog. 15, Proceedings.
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- Kolbert, Elizabeth (1992, August 30). Test-marketing a President: how
- focus groups pervade campaign politics. The New York Times Magazine. 6.
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- Krueger, Richard A. (1988). Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for
- Applied Research. Sage Publications. Newbury Park, Part I, 13-48.
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- Lautman, Martin R. (October 1981). Focus Groups: Theory and Method.
- Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 15: 580-586.
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- Merton, Robert K. (1987). The Focused Interview and Focus Groups:
- Continuities and Discontinuities. Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 51:
- 550-566.
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- Percy, L. (October 1981). Using Qualitative Focus Groups in Generating
- Hypotheses for Subsequent Quantitative Validation and Strategy
- Development. Advances in Consumer Research, Vol 9: 57-61.
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- Reynolds, Fred D. and Johnson, Deborah K. (1978). Validity of Focus
- Group Findings. Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 18, 21-24.
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- Stewart, David W. and Shamdasani, Prem N (1990). Focus Groups: Theory
- and Practice. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.
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- Taylor, D. W., Berry, P. C., and Block, C. H. (1958). Does Group
- Participation When Using Brainstorming Facilitate or Inhibit Creative
- Thinking? Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 3: 23-47.
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- ***Calder, Bobby J. (August 1977). Focus groups and the nature of
- qualitative marketing research. Journal of Marketing Research, Vol.
- XIV, 353-364.
- *On order
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