Conducting research

Facing the problem that students are afraid of expressing their personal feelings and thoughts we were in need of a good solution how to conduct some research anyway.
Our first way around was to also question the teachers about the less talented students. Furthermore we interviewed the principle of DACS school. But since the students were within the main focus of our work on the project we also wanted to involve the students themselves. To get the most personal answers from them we implemented a few easy questions within the questionnaires to make them feel more comfortable (e.g., "What is your favorite color?"). Besides that we separated them to avoid cheating by copying the sentences from another student.

All in all we questioned 35 students (all students in grade 6, 7 & 8).