When he conducts another show later that month, he uses a similar interview technique to gather more information. In addition, he compiles newspaper and magazine reviews of the two shows. When it's time for the student and his professor to meet and decide on a focus for next semester, the student uses the interviews, the reviews, and his teacher's oral and written feedback to set new goals. As students offer responses, they search the teacher's face, verbal response, and body language for clues that may signal acknowledgment. This interaction occurs hundreds of times a day in a variety of subjects.
Feedback is gathered weekly and monthly.
Information is considered at faculty meetings, in special committee meetings, and among small groups of teachers who are implementing the program in their classrooms. A variety of school and community representatives will be involved in a year-end review of the program, and they will also meet periodically over the summer to refine the program for the next school year, when the whole process will begin again with a variety of improvements and refinements. Several teams of scientists go to their computers to compare this launch with previous launches that did and did not demonstrate this problem. Sophisticated diagnostic equipment is used to analyze the leak. When the launch finally takes place later that month, information from both the faulty and successful launches is saved for a new software program that will help scientists predict future launch failures.