Crafting and Conducting Intensive Interviews
Types of Interviews
Qualitative Research: Using informational, intensive, and investigative interviewing strategies
• Informational: Gathering accurate facts and responses for demographic questions and detailed description of events with focus on chronology, places, and people involved. Usually used for people with an objectivist cast
• Intensive Interviewing: A gently-guided, and one-sided conversation in order to gather the personal experiences of the research participants in relation to the research topic. The research topic can be broad (history of people during the Cold War) or focused (local elementary school teachers’ views on policies)
• Investigative: Focus on finding hidden actions and
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Doing so will comfort your interviewee and guide the conversation easier
• Learn any slang or definitions when needed (for example, prisoners use different words when talking about other inmates). Don’t assume they refer to themselves using the same terms that you would use
• Practice interviews for emotionally heavy topics before so you don’t feel emotional during the interview
Constructing Your Interview Guide
• There are many institutional review boards (IRB) that require a submission of an interview guide before you can conduct an interview
• It’s recommended that you write down the topics you intend to talk about and as many questions as you can think of when preparing your guide. The more prepared you are, the more likely you’ll get approved. As well, you’ll be better prepared for the actual
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Instead, ask how it felt (example, how did you feel when they behaved in anger?) or what it means to them (example, what does suffering mean to you?)
Constructivist Grounded Theory Interviews
• A big focus is on how interviewers and participants use language and form and meanings
• This focus can allow you to insert new questions to gain more meaning (example, asking what having a heart attack on a holiday meant to them)
• When the participant makes reference to a generalized term, probe them for more details (example, if they mention that they are having a good day, ask them what a good day is for them)
• Try not to leave any open meanings. Ask questions to gain more details
• How, what, and when questions lead to huge amounts of data, so asking for more details can be
Chapter one is an examination of different definitions of ‘information’ to support the concept of ‘informa...
never been spoken to in that way before. It was… I do not know how to
Wait patiently for their response and be careful not to interrupt. Repeat the question or information as needed.
I have always had a flair for database administration even before I completed my Bachelors’ degree in Management Information System in my home country, Lagos, Nigeria. As a result of this, I decided to conduct an informational interview with a professional in that field. On Tuesday, the 10th of November 2015, I had the opportunity to interview Mr. Femi Balogun, who is an expert in database management field. The interview exercise is optional in order to earn an extra credit in my IT and project management class. However, I was able to learn so many things on the long run in my desired field. The informational interview was conducted through a videoconference on Skype, which made it very interesting and professional.
In our daily verbal or written communication, the meaning of our words are influenced by the speaker, the listener and the context or situation the utterance is applied.
“Communication problems, beyond the obvious language differences, became a real barrier to honest dialogue”.
First, the textbook The Ethnographic Interview presents so many insights. When I read through these chapters, I gained much insight from the significant challenges it presented. On other hand, there are also encouragements for me to understand the difference between approach and methodology. Therefore, according my view of ethnographic interview I will recommend the approach more to another seminarian who has no exposure to ethnographic interviewing. Although, approach and methodology are used by us to describe the way ethnographic interview are done in cultural setting I prefer approach more because approach is the way you are going to approach the ethnographic interview. It also refers to the angle you are using or the direction you are going to take. There can be a more than one way to approach ethnographic interviews. In academic field, approach can refer to the theoretical framework you are going to use in researching ethnographic interviews. For example, if professor gives students a piece of literature or project and ask us to
By having three sets of interviews it will provide the researcher with the opportunity to observe any static or dynamic changes from the students’ interview response. The interviews will be face-to-face,
The interviewer will engage and explain the process. It will begin with an Introduction: The interviewer will introduce themselves by name to the participant.
By interviewing Jian, I went to my high school. My friend who is also my participant, lives next to the high school. I took off at 79th St station, and saw a group of five boys, they were playing outside the bakery. I took a look at my watch, at this moment, they supposed to study in the classrooms, not play outside the bakery. And there were two students buying bread in the bakery. Students in this school were the “same” as the time when I went to this school. Cross the street, the high school is on my right side. There was a football team playing, actually they were trained by the teacher there. Again, there were three guys wearing hats were watching students playing football outside the playground. These styles of study are definitely not good for students. After one minute of walking, I still had a good view on students playing. There were cars all along the way on both sides. Behind that black car, my classmate was sitting on the long chair and smoking in front of his house. He seemed like he was looking, but
This assignment was slightly difficult for me. I struggle with talking to people I don’t know well in normal situations, but having to find and call someone to interview was very stressful for me. I strongly dislike talking to people on the phone unless they are a close friend or family member. The part that made me more nervous was actually having to interview someone. I have only had to do one job interview in my whole life and I was so nervous I could hardly talk. This is quite different than a job interview, but public speaking isn’t a strong skill that I possess.
(Kvale & Brinkmann, 2009) consider it as the most effective and convenient mean of gathering information. Its’ basis is in human conversation, thus allowing a skillful interviewer to modify different aspects of the process, adjusting the pace and order of questions to elicit better responses from the interviewees. It is important to notice, that it enables the respondents to reply in their own personal way, using the language they think is
Use communication skills effectively, use active listening by listening to the other person and paying close attention to what they are saying, asking questions and rephrasing what the person says to ensure understanding.
In order to successfully deliver an oral presentation such as a speech, the speaker must follow certain procedures to ensure his message can be conveyed clearly. Vast amounts of research are essential in order to acquire the knowledge necessary to be able to speak about a topic comfortably and answer any questions the audience might have during the course of the presentation. After acquiring such knowledge about the topic of the presentation the speaker will feel more confident, confidence is key in delivering speeches and other oral presentations because it makes the speaker look more credible and trustworthy. Lastly, the speaker must be fluid and eloquent with his words, the speaker must be able to sound clear and crisp while delivering their