focus group evaluations (fwd)
Yacine Khelladi (yacine@aacr.net)
Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:08:47 -0400 (EDT)
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 14:54:28 GMT
> Reply-To: Jeffrey Hopkins <jhopkins@POSTBOX.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
> Sender: Technology Transfer in International Development
> <DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
> From: Jeffrey Hopkins <jhopkins@POSTBOX.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
> Organization: The Ohio State University
> Subject: focus group evaluations
> To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
>
> I will soon be evaluating a rural adult education program in Guatemala for a
> US NGO. Anybody have any experience in using the focus group technique in a
> rural setting in Latin America? I'm wondering if this technique, which I have
> used many times in the U.S. to evaluate participatory environmental
projects,
> is applicable. Basically, my concern is whether the focus group dynamic
> of equal sharing of conflicting opinions and ideas, where the idea is not to
> get everybody to agree, is likely to be pulled off in a tight-knit setting
> where consensus may be the objective of campesino groups. Other alternatives
> are the individual interview and the case study, but my experience is
> that the results of these are not as interesting as the focus group (but
> my experience is mainly U.S. based).
>
> Jeff Hopkins
> Ohio State University
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