Interview 2015
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The document discusses research interviews as a method for collecting qualitative data. It notes that interviews allow researchers to follow up on ideas, probe responses, and investigate motives and feelings in a way that questionnaires cannot. The document then provides guidance on designing an interview schedule, including considering the number and type of questions, their order, and what data will be collected. It also discusses piloting the schedule and ethics of the interview process.
Interview 2015
- 1. ISM for D&T: Research Methods 1 Interviews Alison Hardy & Sarah Davies
- 2. One major advantage of the interview is its adaptability. A skilful interviewer can follow up ideas, probe responses and investigate motives and feelings, which the questionnaire can never do. Bell (2010, p.161) 17 January 2015 2
- 3. Interview activity. • In your pairs: 1. Read through your research question. 2. Consider 3-4 sub-questions that will allow you to collect the relevant data from your interviewee. 3. Consider how you might structure the 6 minute interview and how you will record the interviewees answers. 4. You have 3minutes to complete (independently in silence). 17 January 2015 3 Research question 1: What are initial teacher education (ITE) students perceptions of the interview process? Research question 2: What activities do ITE students participate in, during their spare time outside teacher training?
- 4. Interviewer 1 activity • Research question 1: – What are initial teacher education (ITE) students perceptions of the interview process? • You have 6 minutes to conduct and record your interview. 17 January 2015 4
- 5. 17 January 2015 5 Activity reflection • How do you feel the interview went? • Write for 6 minutes about your experience as an: – interviewer or – an interviewee • What went well in the interview? • Why? • What didn’t go so well? • Why? • Why do you think the tutor made you complete this activity?
- 6. Learning outcomes • Know about the interview as a research tool and as a method for collecting data; • Be able to design and construct your own interview schedule in accordance with conventional practice • Be able to conduct research interviews with confidence • Be aware of some of the strengths and limitations of interviewing in educational research Sharp (2012. p.73)
- 7. What do they know already about research interviews? 17 January 2015 7
- 8. Key features of the interview include: Summary from Sharp 2009 p.74 and Cohen, Manion and Morrison 2007, p.349: •A flexible tool •Collect detailed information through conversation •Used with a relatively small number of participants •Can be expensive in time •Can be open to bias •Anonymity may be difficult •Allows for the exploration and nature of expressed views, opinions, perceptions, attitudes, preferences and behaviours •allows specific lines of enquiry or matters of interest to be pursued as they arise and in depth •achieve relatively high levels of personal interaction •maintain an acceptable level of standardisation
- 10. Interviewing Skills • Quality and nature of questions • Listening skills • Body language • Setting and atmosphere • Overall conduct of the interview (Burton and Bartlett 2005, p.111)
- 11. What does Graham Gibb have to say? • Knowledgeable • Structure • Clear • Gentle • Sensitive • Open • Steering • Critical • Remembers • Interprets 17 January 2015 11 Balanced Ethically sensitive
- 12. ‘Questions then survey or survey then questions? •The kind of questions you ask will in part determine the kind of survey you will produce. •In turn, the kind of survey you produce will in part determine by the kind of questions you will ask. •Always think about how you are going to analyse your survey data (levels of measurement, dependent/ independent/ control variables. ‘ (Lake 2011. P.4) Questions first?
- 13. Planning an interview Schedule • Be clear about the data that you wish to collect in relation to your questions • Consider how many questions to ask and plan a logical order
- 14. considerations • Pilot and review of schedule • Interview protocol
- 15. Activity In 3’s look at the interview example schedule (SECURE Interview guidance) •How has the schedule been designed? – Amount of questions – Types of questions – Order of questions •What data will be collected? Compare with SD example (again semi-structured but one to one phone interview)
- 16. Approaches and paradigms Normative paradigm Interpretive paradigm Survey research Case study research Documentary research Experimental research Action research Sharp 2012. p.46 This is just one interpretation of approaches to educational research. Cohen, Manion and Lawrence (2007a) discuss these paradigms and how they represent a researchers epistemology and ontology. Reflect: •Where are you on the paradigm spectrum? •What do you think this says about you as a researcher?
- 17. A SEQUENCE OF CONSIDERATIONS PREPARATOR Y ISSUES METHODOLOGY SAMPLING & INSTRUMENTATI ON TIMING & SEQUENCING Ontology, epistemology, constraints, purposes, foci, ethics, research question, politics, literature review Approaches, reliability, validity Reliability, validity, piloting
- 18. A SEQUENCE OF CONSIDERATIONS ORIENTING DECISIONS RESEARCH DESIGN & METHODOLOGY DATA ANALYSIS PRESENTING AND REPORTING RESULTS E.G. SURVEY, EXPERIMENT, NATURALISTIC, CASE STUDY, ACTION RESEARCH, TESTING Cohen, Manion and Morrison, 2007b
- 19. References • BELL, J., 2010. Doing your Research Project: a Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education, Health and Social Science. 5th ed. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Open University Press. • BURTON, D., and BARTLETT, S., 2005. Practitioner Research for Teachers. London: Paul Chapman. • COHEN, L., MANION, L. and MORRISON, K., 2007. Research Methods in Education. 6th ed. Oxon: Routledge. • SHARP, J., 2009. Success with your education research project. GB: Learning Matters Ltd.
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Editor's Notes
- #2: Welcome trainees into the session. Ask the trainees to pair up with the person on the course that they know the least about. Allocate: interviewer 1, and interviewer 2.
- #3: Before we look at the session learning outcomes (that the tutor has identified) we are going to do something active (student centered learning). To introduce the topic of interviews we have a citation from Bell; Bell (2010) describes the advantages of skilful research interviewing. In comparison to a questionnaire the interviewer can collect sensory evidence and to some extent (especially the more skillful the interviewer gets) intuition may come into play.
- #4: Self explanatory
- #6: Link to learning outcomes – next slide
- #7: Note about taking learning outcomes and citations from certain books.
- #12: Show video and activity.
- #13: Click to add notes
- #18: These 2 slides are taken from the Cohen et al ppts from the accompanying website. It just summarises the stages of a project and tries to give an overview of where they are – you might want to skip this apge and move ont the next quickly!
- #19: I’ve highlighted where we are at them moment