Table 4 Topics and examples of prompts during the FGD sessions held with assessors

Consenting process

• Can you tell us about the consenting process?

• Did parents have follow-up questions?

Overall experience of administration

• What is your overall experience with administering the forms to the parents?

• Were there specific forms/questions they struggled/hesitated with?

• For you, what was the most difficult form to administer?

• How do you feel the flow of the form administration went- that is how the forms are sequenced

• Did you feel the length of the interviews was a challenge for the respondents or the child?

GSED LF

• How did parents respond to the administration of the GSED LF?

• Were there any activities that the parents did not understand?

• Were there any activities that seemed to make the parents feel uncomfortable?

• Were there any test-related equipment materials or pictures that were difficult to use?

Training

• Please share your training experience with us

• Did you feel you had enough practice with the children/respondents prior to administration?

• Did your training include videos of administrations—if yes, was this helpful?

• Did the training include any reliability assessment?

• What training activity did you enjoy the most?

App

• Please share your experience with the app use

• Please share the challenges that you faced during the app use

• Did you have any concerns with the app distracting the rapport with respondents and children?

• Which forms were easiest to use with the app?

• Which forms were challenging to use and what were the challenges?

• What changes do you suggest to improve the app?

Video recording

• What was your experience with the video-recording?

• Did you feel that it was disruptive to the process of form administration?

• Please share your challenges and concerns with the video recording