Structured interview

Various factors distinguish the term interview from interrogation. Such as, an interview is a conversation between two or more people where the interviewer asks questions to obtain facts or statements from the interviewee. An interview is also conducted in a friendly atmosphere making a witness more comfortable psychologically and physically (Gupta 155). Recruiters, journalist, media reporters and researchers use interview, so, therefore, a discussion can be structured or unstructured. However,…

1.1.1 Collecting the data The data collected for the study comprised of the official documents of the MSc HQ program and the interviews of the faculty. 1.1.1.1 Documents The documents used for the evaluation included the published articles and administrative documents of the program along with the 2015 courses syllabi. 1.1.1.2 Interviews The faculty who volunteered to participate in the study were referred to as participant(s) in this evaluation. Preferably, the course directors were invited to…

expressing their ideas in English). Therefore, the interviews were conducted in Chinese, which was the first language of the participants. Time for the interviews was based on participants’ schedule and the places of the interviews were decided by the participants for their convenience. Some participants preferred to take part in the interviews on campus rather than their residences, although they were not close to the university. Thus, the interviews were designed to be one-time and in-depth…

In my interview I choose to interview one of my housemates Samantha Wood. I do not know Samantha very well but have communicated with her the odd time. Samantha goes to Georgian college and is 21 years old. I choose to interview her specifically because she is quite about her life and interests so I was motivated to use this interview to get to know her better. I asked Samantha basic questions about her use of and experiences with social media. The interview process was beneficial for what…

On January seventeenth and eighteenth of the year two thousand and fifteen, thousands of Americans tuned in to OWN (Oprah Interview Network) to watch the Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. The ninety minute interview was done in Mr. Armstrong’s home located in Austin, Texas. Winfrey conducted this interview with Armstrong to address the public U.S. reports of him using banned substances during his professional cyclist career. For years he denied the fact of ever using any type of…

There are three frameworks that Hallowell talks about in the selection step, all that help a leader select the right people. The first is a structured interview, “The Hallowell Self-Report Job-Fit Scale.” This scale is taken a couple of days before the interview to allow for deeper conversation and clarification during the interview. The second, framework, is “Find the flow” to matching a person and task together to create flow. Csikszentmihalyi, who has studied the concept of flow extensively,…

Data Collection - Professional and Expert Interviews Primary data was collected by conducting semi-structured interviews of professionals and experts in the field of medical marijuana recommendation and distribution in each of the three states utilizing a uniform set of open-ended questions. This data was coded and analyzed to further determine if the FDA regulation medical marijuana would protect vulnerable populations or if vulnerable populations can by protected through state medical…

important aspect of identity formation for children, involves them drawing distinctions between themselves and others. Psychologists are increasingly interested in the self-descriptions that children give at different ages. Harter 1983 reviewed interviews of children’s self-descriptions at different ages and found a developmental sequence. She found that young children gave self-descriptions in terms of their observable characteristics such as their physical appearance and through activities…

Commentary on the interviews and focus groups (challenges, what worked well, keeping on track etc) “Qualitative interviewing appears a very significant tool with which to understand central features of our conversational world” (Brinkmann, 2013, p.4). As a former reporter of printing media, I used to do the interview as frequently as daily. I conducted the interviews with different background of people such as artists, actors and actress, writers, professors and businessmen. I have been done…

Interviewing looks at how the quality of interviews conducted by people in the field affect the outcome of the work that follows the research process. As well, she also illustrates the flack that researchers receive sometimes from their methodological choices regarding interviews. The thesis of this article states that, “… the focus on the use of qualitative interviews in research studies, arguing that with a growing array of theorizations of the qualitative interview, researchers must…