Ed Research ~ An Intro ~ Gall, Gall, & Borg ~ Interviewing

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key informant interview

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the interviewer collects data from individuals who have special knowledge or perceptions that would not otherwise be available to the researcher

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survey interviews

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to supplement data that have been collected by other methods (confirmation survey interviews, participant construct interviews, & projective techniques)

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confirmation survey interview

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a structured interview that produces evidence to confirm earlier findings

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participant construct interviews

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used to learn how informants structure their physical and social world

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projective techniques

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use ambiguous stimuli to eliciet subconscious perceptions that cannot be observed in the natural setting or solicieted through regular interviewing

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focus groups

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a group interview addressing questions to a group of individuals who have been assembled for this specific purpose, selected because they are well informed about the research topic

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informal conversational interview

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qualitative; relies entirely on the spontaneous generation of questions in a natural interaction, typically one that occurs as part of ongoing participant observation fieldwork

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general interview guide aproach

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qualitative: involves outlining a set of topics to be explored with each respondent; order and wording are not predetermined

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standardized open-ended interview

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qualitative: involves a predetermined sequence and wording of the same set of questions to be asked of each respondent in order to minimize the possibility of bias

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structured interview

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quantitative: involves a series of closed-form questions that either have yes-no answers or can be answered by selcting from among a set of short-answer choices

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semistructured interview

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quantitative: involves asking a series of structured questions and then probing more deeply using open-form questions to obtain additional information

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unstructured interview

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quantitative: does not involve a detailed interview guide, interviewer asks questions that gradually lead the respondent to give the desired information

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interview guide

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specifies the questions, the sequence in which they are to be asked, and the guidelines for what the interviewer is to say at the beginning and end of each interview