This mixed method, multi-site process evaluation of Girls on the Run (GOTR) utilized focus groups, site visits, and self-report implementation checklists.
The paper daws upon sustained contact with the field, evident in interviews, focus groups, site visits, market assessments and documentary analysis.
In August 2017, we traveled back to Brazil for two weeks with a group of eight students, including four returning team members, and focused on the high school experience with teacher focus groups and visits to high schools and vocational institutes and the sharing of the film with university, K-12 and community audiences.
Kull presented his key findings Wednesday at a briefing at the Brookings Institution, which published the book that draws upon five years of polling, focus groups and visits to Muslim majority countries.
The procedures included: individual interviews with key stakeholders; focus groups; school visits, including class observation; and review of national, regional, and global documents.
Methodology Qualitative and quantitative data were collected via group and individual interviews, focus group sessions, field visits, and review of all pertinent documentation.
Case study approach drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods including document reviews, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, site visits and analysis of routinely collected data.
To recruit participants to focus groups, we visited health services, presented information about the study, and then invited all staff present to participate in a group discussion around smoking.
Focus group participants re-visited the difficult items, explored their meaning and identified potential ways to achieve equivalence of meaning.
Second, the identified possible errors through focus group discussions and field visits, and related systemic factors may be a part of all existing errors and factors, since not all distracters of each indicator may be identified or reflected in the items.
