مصاحبه interview محمد مهدی کریم پور معارف اسلامی و مدیریت 88
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مصاحبه
Interview
محمد مهدی کریم پور88معارف اسالمی و مدیریت
What is the Interview? Their main function is to provide a framework in
which respondents can express their own thoughts in their own words
Interviews are not just conversations. They are conversations with a purpose to collect information about a certain topic or research question
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Establishing trust and familiarity demonstrating genuine interest in what the respondent says appearing non judgmental effective balance between talking and listening remembering what the respondent has said knowing when and when not to interrupt
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Required skills for interviewer:
Interviews are used both in quantitative and qualitative research
Quantitative interviews use of a structured survey same questions in the same order responses are amenable to statistical analysis
Qualitative interviews more flexible and open-ended used to develop ideas and research hypotheses rather than
to gather facts and statistics
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Use of Interview:
Difference between quantitative and qualitative:
Depth of information
Number of respondent
qualitative
quantitative
Often combine with other methods. used to ensure that the questions that will appear in a
widely circulated questionnaire are valid and Understandable
used as follow-up to a questionnaire explore in more depth interesting issues from the
standard questionnaire development of new ideas and hypotheses and throw
up new dimensions to be studied. complement questionnaire data
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Position of the Interview
Flexibility High response rate Check on questions Probes Clarification Confirmation Prompts Connecting Non-verbal communication Timing of interview
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Advantages of interviews
Disadvantages of Interviews
Reliability Lack of comparability Time consuming Costly Interruptions Lack of anonymity
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Interviewer effects
First appearances are very important as they may influence how people respond to one another
Preconceived notions may also exist among interviewees. The interviewee may have certain conceptions of the interviewer based on appearance and demeanour
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Structured semi-structured Unstructured
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semi-structuredStructured Structured
Types of the Interview
similar to questionnaires: standard format pre-determined questions in a fixed order
equal opportunities for all persons draw constructs embedded in one’s thinking and rationale for
decision making structured interviews begin with some type of tentative
hunch, targeting interview questions in that direction.
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Structured Interview
four occasions in qualitative research comparison among groups conducting interview waves
can be followed up by open or semi-structured interviews later.
the primary design of the project is quantitative research, but the researcher wishes to supplement the findings with an open-ended component.
interviewing low-functioning individuals
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Structured Interview
a qualitative data collection strategy in which the researcher asks informants a series of predetermined but open-ended questions.
The researcher has more control over the topics of the interview than in unstructured interviews, but in contrast to structured interviews or questionnaire that use closed questions, there is no fixed range of responses to each question.
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Semi-structured interview
Is useful where the concepts and relationships among them are relatively well understood, such as in typological analysis;
in contrast, unstructured interviews are more useful when the identification of important concepts is one of the research aims, such as in phenomenology.
the interviewer must avoid leading questions
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Semi-structured interview
Involve asking relatively open-ended questions of research participants in order to discover their percepts on the topic of interest.
Begins with vague, general questions. The research participant has few clues as to the
researcher’s own opinion of where the researcher would like the conversation to go.
the interviewee determines the direction
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Unstructured interview
five occasions to be used: studying relatively new domains.
when qualitative researchers utilize research waves.
depth, rather than breadth, is the primary goal of the research project.
for ethnographic research.
useful with articulate individuals.
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Unstructured interview
summarize the content that researchers cover during interviews.
provide very minimal directions, leading to “less structured” interviews
ensure that the researcher’s topics of interest are thoroughly covered.
Two types: Question based guides
More common topic-based guides
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Interview guides