Girls Active Programme - Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership
Girls Active Programme - Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership
Girls Active Programme - Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership
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Aims <strong>and</strong><br />
Methodology of<br />
the Evaluation<br />
each of the three schools. They were given time to<br />
respond to each question as a group or individually.<br />
A note-taker was present <strong>and</strong> an audio recording<br />
made of the proceedings. In addition, separate<br />
semi-structured interviews were held with the coordinating<br />
teacher <strong>and</strong> with the school principal in<br />
each school. These interviews addressed a wide<br />
range of issues concerning the experience of <strong>Girls</strong><br />
<strong>Active</strong> in the school since it became involved.<br />
The focus groups <strong>and</strong> interviews took no longer than<br />
20 minutes each <strong>and</strong> the latter were also recorded<br />
on disc. The lists of questions for focus groups <strong>and</strong><br />
interviews are reproduced in Appendix C.<br />
School visits to collect data for the case studies<br />
were conducted in late January 2006. Later, all<br />
focus group discussions <strong>and</strong> interviews were<br />
transcribed for interpretation <strong>and</strong> analysis.<br />
3.2.3 Other Instruments<br />
The researcher attended an in-service day for coordinators<br />
organised by the programme support<br />
agencies during October 2005 <strong>and</strong> also studied all<br />
available project documentation. These provided<br />
additional insight <strong>and</strong> back-up for the main themes<br />
emerging from the findings of the primary research<br />
instruments.<br />
One-on-one consultations were carried out with<br />
representatives from the programme support<br />
agencies primarily to collect views <strong>and</strong> information<br />
with regard to the implementation of the programme<br />
<strong>and</strong> its wider impacts.<br />
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the programme when the survey took place.<br />
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Evaluation of the <strong>Girls</strong> <strong>Active</strong> <strong>Programme</strong> - 2003 – 2005 Report