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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?

Partnership for Kentucky Schools Turn Up the Volume: The Students Speak Toolkit