Design

1. Identify your research topic.
2. Form a work team.
3. Designate a project manager.
4. Draft a rough timetable. Schedule work team meetings and draft agendas.
5. Clarify the aims of the research and draft research questions.
6. Make decisions about focus group structure.
7. Identify the types of students to recruit for each group.
8. Make decisions about the logistics of the recruitment.
9. Draft and revise interview questions.
10. Make decisions about focus group facilitation.
11. Plan facilitator training.
12. Make decisions about facilitator logistics.
13. Make decisions about site management.
14. Make decisions about focus group recording and analysis.
15. Plan your next steps.

Next: Identify your research topic.