Focus Groups: Asking Questions That Yield Powerful Information

About the Presenter

Dr. Richard A. Krueger has been active in conducting research studies within universities, public agencies and non-profit organizations. He has served in a variety of roles such as consultant, advisor, principal investigator and study director for scores of research efforts in topics such as: public health, nursing, social work, education, medicine, communications, business and natural resources. In addition, Dr. Krueger has taught a range of courses on research methodology at 20 universities throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

He is on the graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota in both education and epidemiology where he teaches courses on program evaluation and focus group interviewing. His instructional strategy has been developed from 20 years of his own research on effective training experiences. He incorporates a variety of strategies to make the topics interesting and engaging. He stresses practicality, involvement, experiential learning and a little humor in his lesson materials.