Technology and Method Intersect in the Online Focus Group     

Laura J. Burton  Jennifer E. Bruening 《Quest (Human Kinetics)》2013,65(4):315-327

Online focus groups may provide a new tool for research conducted in sport science settings (e.g., psychology, sociology, management, physical education, and recreation). Benefits of online focus groups include the ability for people in multiple locations to respond synchronously via chat rooms or asynchronously via discussion software. Additional benefits include increased equality of participation, greater participant diversity, the matching of research design with research environment, researcher interaction, and the elimination of transcribing. Disadvantages include under representation of non-Internet users, lack of face-to-face contact, potential participant no-show rate, and the difficulty of securing data on the Internet. Sport science scholars are encouraged to examine this emerging method as related to their specific research aims and consider application of online focus groups to further their research.  相似文献   

Flaying Freire? The Workers’ Party and education policy in Brazil, 1980–2007     

Guy Burton 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2012,58(1):91-108

This article analyses the progression of education policy by the Workers?? Party (PT) in Brazil from its experience of municipal administration to national government. The first section presents this development, noting its progression from a participatory, social(ist) project to a more reformist, elite-directed model. The second section accounts for the domestic influences that led to a more reformist PT education policy by the 2000s. These include: (1) increasing electoral success, (2) changing membership composition, (3) policy innovations supported by its members and (4) a growing asymmetry in resources (and influence) towards the party leadership and its members. The third section presents the global changes in education thinking that coincided with the PT??s entry into national government. It distinguishes between a neo-liberal and neo-conservative ??first generation?? and a state-oriented ??second generation?? Washington Consensus, associated with the New Right and the centre-left that emerged across the region after 2000 respectively.  相似文献   

Universal secondary education in Uganda: The head teachers’ dilemma     

David W. Chapman  Lisa Burton  Jessica Werner 《International Journal of Educational Development》2010,30(1):77-82

Uganda has received considerable international attention for being the first and, to date, only African country to adopt a policy of free universal secondary education (USE). However, the policy was adopted with little attention to system capacity or involvement of secondary head teachers, even though there is considerable research documenting the importance of school leaders in promoting or blocking education reform efforts. This study investigated the extent to which Uganda secondary school leaders support USE policy, the extent they think USE is being implemented successfully, and the extent they believe they have the knowledge and skills needed in USE implementation. To understand the role of head teachers in the move to USE in Uganda, it is necessary to understand the political context in which it was adopted and the conditions under which it was implemented.  相似文献   

Identifying motivators and barriers to older community-dwelling people participating in resistance training: A cross-sectional study     

Elissa Burton  Gill Lewin  Simone Pettigrew  Anne-Marie Hill  Liz Bainbridge  Kaela Farrier 《Journal of sports sciences》2017,35(15):1523-1532

Participation rates of older people in resistance training (RT) are low despite increasing research showing many health benefits. To increase the number of older people participating in RT it is important to know what would motivate people to become involved, what motivates those who participate to continue, and the factors preventing many older people from commencing participation. To investigate these issues, a questionnaire was mailed to three groups of older people: (1) those receiving home care services, (2) members of a peak non-government seniors’ organisation and (3) those participating in a specific gym-based RT programme. In total, 1327 questionnaires were returned (response rate = 42.5%). To feel good physically and mentally were the main reasons motivating participation among all three groups, and falls prevention was identified as an important motivator for the home care respondents. Pain, injury and illness were the main barriers to participating, or continuing to participate. However, medical advice was a factor influencing participation commencement. The results suggest organisations providing RT programmes for older people should tailor the promotion and delivery of programmes to address key motivators and barriers specific to each group to increase the proportion of older people initiating and continuing to engage in RT.  相似文献   

Special studies in electrolysis mitigation. 3. A report on conditions in Springfield,Ohio, with insulated feeder system installed     

Burton McCollum  G.H. Ahlborn 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1915,180(3):371-373

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Travel.State.Gov. Visited January 30, 2005. Managed by the Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs, Washington, DC, 20520. .Department of State Travel and Living Abroad. Visited January 30, 2005. Maintained by the Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Washington, DC, 20520. .     

Donna Burton   《Government Information Quarterly》2006,23(3-4):509

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A sandwich course in sociology     

Nancy Burton 《Higher Education Quarterly》1971,25(3):369-374

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Risk in academic writing: postgraduate students,their teachers and the making of knowledge     

Jill Burton 《Studies in Continuing Education》2015,37(3):338-339

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Information distribution issues for the 90s. Edited by Betty Unruh and Wendy Schipper. Philadelphia: National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services, 1991. x, 156 pp. isbn 0-942308-30-1.     

Paul F. Burton 《Learned Publishing》1992,5(1):45-46

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Microcomputer Systems: What to look for and where to go for help*     

Paul F. Burton 《Health information and libraries journal》1986,3(4):256-256

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