Chapter 10 – Research techniques: Interviews. In this chapter students will be able to: Explain the purpose(s) of research interviews, list the types of interviews, identify key challenges in conducting a research interview, prepare for an effective interview, plan and conduct an effective interview, prevent bias in an interview.
Trang 1Planning an Applied Research
Project
Chapter 10 — Research Techniques:
Interviews
Trang 2Explain the purpose(s) of research interviews
List the types of interviews
Identify key challenges in conducting a research
interview Prepare for an effective interview
Plan and conduct an effective interview Prevent bias in an interview
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Trang 3Courtesy bias Door-to-door interviewing Doorknob questions
Filter questions
Focus groups
Group interviews Intercept interviewing Interviewer error
Interview fatigue Interview protocol
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Probing questions Research interviews Respondent bias Semi-structured interviews Social desirability bias
Stages of interview process Status bias
Structured interviews Unstructured interviews
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» Reasons for Interviewing
> Effective way method to collect a lot of important information
> More detailed information than questionnaires
> Extra information since people like to talk about
their work and their programs or company
> Suggestions for future research
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» Structured Interviews
> Hard to develop the protocol
> Easy to conduct
> Follow up questions ahead of time
> Requires less interviewer skills
> Limits responses — may block avenues of discussion
> Can be full of leading questions
> Easy to take notes
> Easy to analyze and compare responses
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> Requires good interviewer skills
> Encourages wide rage of responses — may block core issues
> Difficult to take good notes
> Difficult to analyze and compare responses
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» Unstructured Interviews
> Easy to develop the protocol
> Difficult to conduct for research; easy to conduct since it is just listening
> Follow up can be easy or difficult, depending on interviewee and interviewer
> Requires real contact and trust
> Encourage wide rage of responses — may block core issues
> Difficult to take good notes
> Difficult to analyze and compare responses
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Trang 11> Probes and prompts
> Order you would ask questions
> Last two golden questions (What have | not
asked that you want to tell me? Who else would you suggest that | interview’)
> Closing speech, review, and thank you
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Trang 12lnterview Protocol (conf d)
» Interview Permission
> Give a person a chance to say yes or no
> Explain privacy, purpose of interview, recording, use of information
> Honor ethical issues around interviewing
> Provide appropriate recognition of time spent
> Conduct yourself professionally
> Offer checking words, phrases, quotes, statistical
data
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Trang 13Preparing for the Interview
» Questions to Use in Interviews
Trang 14Preparing for the Interview (contd)
» Questions to Avoid in Interviews
Trang 15Preparing for the Interview
(contd)
» Tips for Interviewing
> Determine how you will take notes
> Prepare well organized interview schedule — with
probe (or ICQ if appropriate) and follow up
questions ready (if necessary}
> Present yourself professionally
> Write script to introduce yourself and your
purpose (Ss)
> Listen carefully to what is actually said
> Ask when something is not clear
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(contd)
» Tips for Interviewing (cont'd)
> Respect his or her time so be prompt
> Recognize what he or she cannot tell you
> Refrain from interpreting what is said; pay
attention to exactly what the interviewee says
> Remember the phases of a research interview —
beginning, middle, end, and wrap up
> Honor the time commitment
> Close the interview thoughttully
> Thank the person
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Trang 17Preparing for the Interview
(contd)
» Improving the Interview
> Consider using ICQ — interview control questions
— to assess attitudes and relationships
> Frame the interview
> Build trust
> Cultivate curiosity
> Use active listening — scanning for meaning and non verbal behavior while interviewing
> Select your tone of listening
> Monitor foreground and background
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Trang 18Stages of a Research Interview
> Checking interpretations and recording
> Ending and summarizing
» Thanking with a hand written note Vv
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Trang 19Stages of a Research Interview (cont’d)
» Challenges of Interviewing
> Recording or note taking
> Listening carefully and closely and not hearing and recording what you want to hear
> Preparing good follow up questions
> Developing prompts and probes
> Avoiding leading or loaded questions
> Analyzing the results
— Individual interviews
— Several interviews
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Trang 21Stages of a Research Interview (cont’d)
» Problems in Collecting Data
> No responses
> Delayed responses
> Desire to please — interviewer or interviewee
> Inconsistency in responses or in understanding
what is being asked
> Bias in respondent
> Bias in interviewer or observer
> Poor notes
> Note taking errors
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Trang 22Unusual Interview Formats
» Telephone interviews
» Group interviews (and not focus groups}
» Door to door interviews
» Follow up interviews
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Trang 23Review of Class Session