This article details one technique, the
Delphi Technique, that was used by the Prison Advisory Committee (PAC) for Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI) in Oregon.
* to perform a two-round
Delphi technique expert survey regarding an evaluation of needs for ITS deployment in the Lithuanian public transport system;
Exploring district nursing competencies in health promotion: The use of the
Delphi technique. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 14(8), 965-975.
Therefore the Ameliorated Nominal Group Technique but also the
Delphi Technique can bring support.
The critical question targets the appropriateness of the
Delphi technique to establish expert consensus on very complex issues.
Brainstorming and
Delphi techniques rely heavily on the participant or the expert' subject judgments and many obstacles will occur in terms of organizing and communicating in practice.
Fraenkel asked me to test the instrument for reliability (Frankel, 1998) and I also did a
Delphi technique to establish validity.
The
Delphi technique allows researchers to solicit the opinions of a geographically dispersed group of experts who, for reasons of time and money, would not otherwise be able to come together to explore a specific topic (Linstone.
The ID procedure was designed based on the foundations of the applied social systems theories (Bahg, 1990; Woudenberg, 1991), and relies upon the strengths of later versions of the
Delphi technique (Ranch, 1979; Turoff, 1975; Press, 1983; Harkins and Kurth-Schai, 1983; Poolpatarachewin, 1980).