APSY2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Focus Group, Intercultural Competence

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2240
• Professor: Julia Whitcavitch- Devoy

Document Summary

Expand does anyone want to agree with that or disagree? . Recognize multiple focus groups are often necessary. Advantages: data already collected; data readily available; very useful in process evaluations. Disadvantages: secondary data (concerns about reliability/validity); missing/incomplete data; can be hard to access; data may not be in form needed; key indicators may be defined differently. Best practices: questions clear and concise; valid and reliable measures; pre- testing of questions; cultural competence; high response rates. Things to avoid: double barreled questions; biased/leading questions; double negatives; ambiguous questions; categories not exhaustive; lengthy surveys.