Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Interview
- Definition
- Conversation between two people that involves a
set of assumptions and understandings about
different situations which are not normally
associated with a casual conversation
- Types
- Unstructured
- allows some control over the interview for both
interviewer and interviewee
- can be difficult to plan
- they can prove extremely
difficult to analyse
- Structured
- The interviewer has control
over the order of questions, all
of which are predetermined
- There is an element of
predictability which allows the
event to be timetabled with
some precision
- provide an easier framework for analysis
- Semi-structured
- The interviewer directs
the interview more
closely
- More questions are predetermined
- there is sufficient
flexibility to allow
the interviewee an
opportunity to shape
the flow of
information
- Procedures
- Draft the interview
- The number, type and
format of your
questions
- Pilot your questions
- Piloting, or testing out, your questions
with a select few people in order to
establish their clarity
- Eliminate ambiguous
questions as well as in
generating useful feedback
on the structure and flow of
your intended interview
- Select your interviewees
- The sample of
interviewees must
be representative
and sensible
- Conduct the interviews
- Very formal interview situations
tend to position the interviewer
in front of the interviewee
- Interviewer and interviewee sitting
alongside each other, with any recording
device discreetly placed so as not to
intimidate or distract the interviewee
- The researcher must begin by
introducing him or herself, outlining
the purpose of the interview and its
intended format and structure
- To ensure effective communication has
taken place in relation to a topic or
question, it can be useful for the
interviewer to restate part or all of the
interviewee’s response
- Analyse the interview data
- Draw together the data collected
and structure them in such a way
as to make ready for analysis
- Agrpate the responses to each question
from all interviewees to make
comparison between respondents easy
- When analysing a large number of
interview transcripts it may be
necessary to utilise the functions
of computer-based tools
- Data analysis
- In small-scale work, this would typically
involve grouping the responses to each
question from all interviewees to make
comparison between respondents easy
- When analysing a large number
of interview transcripts it may be
necessary to utilise the functions
of computer-based tools
- The final stage of the interview process
begins by drawing together the data
collected and structuring them in such a
way as to make ready for analysis
- Uses
- Obteining detail
information about a topic
- fundamental
research tool
- Provides a great deal of advice
on framing questions,
organising and managing the
interview, and piloting