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20th June 2009
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Why interview?
- to understand the meaning people involved in education make of their experience
- provides access to the context of people's behaviour - provides a way to understand the meaning of that behaviour.
- basic assumption: the meaning people make of their experience affects the way they carry out that experience - causal explanation.
- allow us to enter into other people's perspective since we cannot observe feelings, thoughts & intentions. Besides, we cannot observe behaviors that took place at some previous point in time.
1. sufficiency - sufficient to reflect range of participant & sites that make up the population. Use maximal variation : use data that are able to represent the population.
causal explanation.
2. saturation: interviewer begins to hear same info reported; no longer learning anything new.
3. logistics n resources consideration
4. always start with bigger number.
-Interviewing is an art and can be taught. Researches can learn techniques n skills of interviewing.
-Use semi structured interview is recommended.
- You must have pilot interviews and tape it to tryout your questions and ensure that people understand your questions and to get some practice in interviewing.
Tips
- Listen more n talk less (active listening)
- tolerate silence
- follow up n don't interrupt
- follow your hunches
- explore n probe
- listen to the substance
- listen to the inner voice (reflect awareness of audience)
- be conscious with body language n b sensitive to participant's energy level
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