Best Practices in Focus Groups and Interview – July 14, 2025
July 14 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Online
Before gathering data for a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project you need to decide on the best method for answering your inquiry. If focus groups or interviews are the best fit, it is important to design the sessions in a way that elicit useful and insightful data. In this workshop, we will discuss when to use focus groups or interviews as evaluation methods and will share best practices for how to integrate them into your SoTL projects.
Participants will leave the session with a basic understanding of planning, administrating and analyzing focus groups and interviews.
Facilitators:
- Adriana Briseño-Garzón, Senior Manager, Research & Evaluation
- Trish Varao-Sousa, Evaluation & Research Consultant
Browse the upcoming 2025 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) events:
- May 13: Introduction to SoTL
- May 14 or 15: Evaluating TLEF, OER and SaP Projects
- June 4: Classroom Evaluation and Research: Do I Need Ethics Approval?
- July 14: Best Practices in Focus Groups and Interview
- August 14: Best Practices in Survey Design