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- - - - (1) hold a brainstorming session
        
        The researcher should begin by inviting four to six people who are familiar with the study to a one- or two- hour meeting. Ask these people to suggest questions that should be answered in the study. Questions may be lightly discussed but do not get stuck debating the merits of a single ques- tion. Have one person record all these ques- tions, and adjourn when ideas dry up.
      - (2) use the brainstorming questions to draft a questioning route,
        
        Groups are good at brain- storming, but they are not efficient at develop- ing questioning routes. Have one person use the questions generated in the meeting as the basis to draft a questioning route. Select the questions that seem most likely to provide useful information. Rephrase these questions according to their order in the questioning route. Sequence the questions in a logical flow from general to specific.
        
        Once we have a draft questioning route, we estimate how much time we think the group should spend on each question. Not all ques- tions deserve the same amount of time.
        
        Once we have estimated times for each of the questions, we add up the total to determine whether we should add or delete questions.
      - (3) send the draft questioning route to the team for feedback
        
        Ask the brainstorming team the following questions: Will these questions get us the information we need? What have we missed? What can be deleted? Are these the words participants would use? Does the flow make sense? Then the researcher can revise the questioning route based on feedback.
        
        It is important to remember that the same questions are asked in all the interviews with the same audience. However, if separate groups are going to be conducted for different audiences, a slightly different questioning route might be used for each.
        
        the researcher needs to keep a core set of questions the same in each questioning route so that responses can be compared across audiences.
- - - - This question asks participants to reflect on the entire discussion and then offer their positions or opinions on topics of central importance to the researchers.
      - For example: “Suppose that you had one minute to talk to the head of X about this topic. What would you say?” Or “Of all the things we discussed, what to you is the most important?”
    - - The assistant moderator often gives a short summary of the focus group near the end.
      - After the brief oral summary, the moderator asks: “Is this a good summary of what was said here today?”
    - - The moderator reviews the purpose of the study and then asks the participants:
      - “Have we missed anything? Is there anything we should have discussed that we didn’t?”