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A Sample Agenda for the Analysis Team Meeting

  1. What are the most important themes and ideas people talked about?

    • How did these differ from what we expected?

    • How did these differ from earlier focus groups on the same subject (if applicable)?

    • What points need to be included in the report?

    • What quotes should be remembered and possibly included in the report?

    • What were the areas of agreement among participants? Among schools? Among all school levels? Where were there areas of disagreement?

  2. What were the participants like?

    • What key words or phrases did they use in answering each key question?

    • What themes developed in their answers to key questions?

    • What subthemes developed among specific subgroups?

  3. Should we do anything differently in future groups?

  4. What progress did you make in answering the research questions?

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