Focus Group Topics Considered by Kentucky Students

Here is a list of focus group topics addressed by Kentucky students since 1997.

• Students' views on teaching and learning (two undisclosed middle schools and two undisclosed high schools [two rural, two urban, two high-achieving, two low-achieving])

• School safety and school climate (Jessamine County Schools, K-12)

• Cultural barriers to academic and social success (Fayette County Middle School)

• Narrowing the academic achievement gap between high-performing and low-performing students (Fayette County High School)

• How administrators, teachers, and students can work together to close the achievement gap (Fayette County High School)

• Reasons why students do or do not participate in technology programs (two Fayette County High Schools)

• Students' perceptions of the work they do for school (Jessamine County Schools, K-12)

• Students' ideas about a major building renovation and how to reduce problems associated with it (Fayette County Middle School)

• Reasons for poor high school attendance and ideas for improving attendance (West Jessamine High School, Jessamine County)