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IEBC and Q2 Insights Webinar
Capturing the Student VoiceBrad Phillips
President, IEBC
Kirsty NunezPresident, Q2Insights
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Welcome to Capturing the Student Voice
IEBC helps education stakeholders use data and information to make informed decisions, improve practice and increase
student success.
Brad Phillips, PhDPresident/CEO
Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC)
Kirsty Nunez, MA, MSPHPresident and Chief Research Strategist
Q2 Insights, Inc.
Q2 Insights is a leading marketing research firm blending cutting edge technology
with a full spectrum of research methodologies.
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Student Equity and SSSP – An Opportunity to Learn From Our Students
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What We Are Familiar With
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What Today’s Students Are Familiar With
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A Focus on Student Success
Institutions want students to be successful and students themselves want to be successful. As institutions,
How do we help students become more successful throughout
their educational experience?
How do we engage students more deeply for an enriched college
experience that is appealing to them?
How do we align ourselves more closely with students’ needs and lifestyles to reach
a wider potential student base?
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Integrate the Student Voice in Important Decisions
Become more student centered by understanding student experiences from the student perspective.
Use tools that enable students to give their honest opinion and feedback.
Make the right decisions based on the student experience for effective and meaningful change.
Ask and listen to students with the right tools to get a deep understanding of attitudes, opinions, and behaviors of an increasingly diverse student body.
To help students become more successful, we need to:
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Young Adults: A Digitally Mobile Population
Using the right digital tools for the job, higher education institutions can uncover changes and support the fastest-growing and most underserved student population, leading to an optimal college experience.
89% of student time spent on media is
through mobile apps.
Smart phones are widely used for
accessing educational resources.
30% of smart phone users use smart
phones to take a class or get educational
content.
Younger adults who have low income and
low educational attainment levels and tend to be non-white consider themselves
“smart-phone dependent”
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In-Person DigitalRecruitment can be time consuming and
challenging Recruitment is efficient and less challenging
One Focus Group is two hours in length One Focus Group is conducted over three daysStudents must participate on a specific date at
a specific timeStudent contributions are 1.5 hours over a
three day time period8 to 12 students 25 students
“Air time” is not equal across all students All students contribute at least 1.5 hours of content
Students may be not fully forthcoming More likely to tell it like it isModerator’s Guides typically do not change
during the Focus Group sessionModerator’s Guides are set but change based
on student responses
Generally only verbal feedback is obtained from students
Feedback from students includes voice, narrative, storytelling and uploaded pictures,
video, etc.
Cost for 75 students: $56,200 Cost for 75 students $32,000 but much more content
In-Person Versus Digital Qualitative Research
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Benefits of Digital Mobile Technology
Mobile and other digital survey tools allow higher education leaders to transcend time and place barriers to tap into the student voice when, where and how it is convenient for them.
There is an increased willingness to participate in research and to offer opinions in an anonymous environment, especially when discussing sensitive topics such as failure.
Using digital tools, students are in an environment in which they are comfortable and tend to feel a stronger sense of control. As a result, engagement levels increase.
Students are not required to physically show up at an appointed time nor to express their opinions in an artificial environment amongst strangers.
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Digital Bulletin Board Focus Groups
The methodology affords greater insight-rich sessions than traditional in-person qualitative Focus Groups. Digital Bulletin Board Focus Groups generate more qualitative data than would be
generated by in-person Focus Groups conducted with a comparable number of respondents.
Digital Bulletin Board Focus Groups use a digital platform that gives respondents the ability to login at any time during a 24-hour period using their mobile device, tablet, laptop or desktop and
provide feedback over a set period of days or weeks.
Traditional Focus Group: 8 to 12 respondents generate 2 hours of qualitative dataDigital Bulletin Board Focus Group: 25 respondents generate 37.5 hours of qualitative data
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Digital Bulletin Board Focus Groups
Visual (video or pictures) Auditory Written words
Stimulus material in the form
of …
Video Text Narrative StorytellingFeedback
can be in the form of …
Messages
Websites Posters
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Digital Bulletin Board Focus Group Process
Students will typically be recruited from a client database provided. Q2 Insights recommends over-recruiting to ensure 25 participate per DBBFG.
Senior marketing research consultants will moderate the Focus Groups.
Recruiting
Professional Moderating
Each DBBFG will be three days in duration. Students will be required to log in and participate at least 30 minutes per day for three days.
DBBFG Platform
A detailed report of findings will be developed in MS PowerPoint format; conclusions and recommendations will be included.
Reporting
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Sample Device Views
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Sample Stimulus Material
Stimulus materials might be mood boards, concept statements, advertisements, videos, images, or other materials.
Digital Bulletin Board Focus Groups Concept Statement
Digital Bulletin Board Focus Groups give students the ability to log on at their leisure and provide feedback over a set period of time. Students are engaged in the research asynchronously. The methodology provides greater geographic reach and longer, more in-depth transcripts than any other qualitative methodology. Conduct research in-home, in-field, in-school, or even offline. Participants love the convenience. Clients love the depth of information and video management capabilities.
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Qualitative Reporting Examples
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Five Steps to Take Advantage of this Student Voice Opportunity
Identify the issues at your institution that need to be addressed1
Work with IEBC and Q2 Insights to formulate objectives for the research2
Recruit students to participate3
Senior researchers from Q2 Insights will moderate the three-day boards while you observe digitally4
Receive a report that addresses the objectives and includes conclusions and recommendations5
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Timeline
Depending on the scope of the project, the following timeline may be achieved for a Digital Bulletin Board Focus Group.
Week: One Two Three Four Five
Project Set-Up Including Recruiting Screener Development
Recruiting Screener Approved
Draft Moderator’s Guide
Moderator’s Guide Approved
Recruiting
Conduct Focus Group
Reporting
Report Deliver
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Costs
Costs are dependent upon the scope of the project. Other elements that affect costs are the number of participants, the number of Digital Bulletin Board Focus Groups conducted, incentives, and the stimulus materials or exercises developed.
This work falls under Student Equity and SSSSP. Gathering the student voice is critical for colleges to better develop programs and services that can really address student needs – not the needs we think students have.
One Focus Group of 25 students may range from: $12,000 to $15,000
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How to Get Started
Contact IEBC:Phone: 760-436-1477
Brad C. [email protected]
www.iebcnow.org
Contact Q2 Insights:Phone: 760-230-2950 ext. 1
Kirsty [email protected]
www.Q2insights.com
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Questions and Answers