s you consider your interview, think about:
- Asking of questions to ask to encourage stories and examples
- How to “reframe” questions to reduce ambiguity and bias
- What you can do to make the interviewee at ease
- What you can do to build rapport and trust
For this Discussion, you will examine the characteristics of a good qualitative interview.
To prepare for this Discussion:
- Review the chapters of the Rubin and Rubin course text and consider the characteristics of a good qualitative interview.
- Review the Yob and Brewer interview questions in Appendix A at the end of the article and consider how interview guides are used in research.
- Review the Interview Guide Instructions and the Interview Guide Example found in this week’s Learning Resources and use these documents to guide you during your interview.
By Day 4
Post your explanation of the characteristics of a good qualitative interview. Also include what makes a good interview guide. Use the interview questions from Yob and Brewer’s interview guide to support your post.
Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Saldaña, J. (2016). The coding manual for qualitative researchers (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Chapter 1, “An Introduction to Codes and Coding” (pp. 1–42) (previously read in Weeks 5 and 6)
- Chapter 2, “Writing Analytic Memos About Narrative and Visual Data” (pp. 43–65) (previously read in Weeks 5 and 6)
Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2016). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Chapter 5, “Methods of Data Collection” (pp. 145–183)
- Chapter 7, “An Integrative Approach to Data Analysis” (pp. 215–236) (previously read in Weeks 5 and 6)
- Chapter 8, “Methods and Processes of Data Analysis” (pp. 237–270) (previously read in Weeks 5 and 6)
Rubin, H. J., & Rubin, I. S. (2012). Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Chapter 6, “Conversational Partnerships” (pp. 71–93)
- Chapter 7, “The Responsive Interview as an Extended Conversation” (pp. 95–114)
- Chapter 8, “Structure of the Responsive Interview” (pp. 115–129)
- Chapter 9, “Designing Main Questions and Probes” (pp. 131–147)
- Chapter 10, “Preparing Follow-Up Questions” (pp. 149–169)
- Chapter 12, “Data Analysis in the Responsive Interviewing Model” (pp. 189–211) (previously read in Weeks 5 and 6)
Document: Excel Video Coding Document Template (Excel spreadsheet)
These Headings Must be adhered too!!! Here are the required headings:
Characteristics
Good interview Guide
Reflection/Questions
References
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with a readable format, the interviewer easily sees the keywords for the topics to discuss. The other aspect is that a good guide should be flexible such that the researcher does not have to use the exact words when asking the questions. Also, the flexibility of the interview guide is that it does not have to be numbered thus allowing the researcher to pose the questions in any order. Most importantly, a quality guide begins with a neutral question and a closing question. The neutral question helps in easing the interview, or it acts as an icebreaker which invites the interviewees to describe a general aspect that relates to the topic. The closing question, on the other hand, works like an open forum that encourages the respondents to add in more information that could have been left out in the study.
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