Building a Research Instrument on Financial Numeracy in Schools (Quebec and Romania)

Abstract

As we saw in chapter “Background and Implementation of the Project”, the questionnaire developed to collect information about teachers’ practices, perceptions and needs was not part of the initial methodology plan for our research, which had been approved by the McGill Ethics Board. When the research team began to plan the questions and sub-questions to be asked during the focus groups, they soon realised that there were too many questions for the time allowed – 3 h – as well as introducing the consent form. The solution they came up with was to have participants sign the consent form online prior to taking part in the focus group, and to add demographic and personal information questions not necessary for discussion in the focus group.