The focus group, as mentioned above, will be composed of five students from each of the three groups. That will provide the study with a big enough focus group to discern certain trends and by seeking a more in-depth knowledge of how the students feel about certain scenarios could be helpful in providing more insight into how different events are perceived by students from different backgrounds.
David L. Morgan writes in his book; Focus Groups as Qualitative Research that "most rewarding...is the fact that focus groups are now a much more widely practiced research method within the social sciences" (p. vii).
Morgan continues by writing "there is a sizeable literature about focus groups in anthropology, communication studies, education, evaluation, nursing, political science, psychology, public health, sociology and many other disciplines" (p. vii). This study will seek to take advantage of the benefits of using a focus group to discuss in far more detail the answers compiled from the questionnaires. It is hoped that these more detailed...
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