Focus group

Day 8, 6 April 2011
Today I am meeting with my students for a focus group interview. We are meeting at 10.30 am in the mathematics department, the same room where we have our classes daily. I asked them a week prior to the interview about their willingness to participate in this study. Around 12 students gave their names to me, but only five showed up on the day of the interview. The ones who came requested that they’d be more comfortable if the interview was conducted in Urdu (their national language). They all read the consent forms and signed. I started recording and everything went well. The interview lasted for 70 minutes. After finishing with the interview, I waited for 15 minutes till all the students came in. I have a class with them now.