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Practical Research 1

This document discusses different methods for conducting interviews in research. It describes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured interviews. It also discusses individual interviews, group interviews, and mediated interviews that can take place over the phone or online. The document outlines the typical steps in conducting an interview, including getting to know the participant, explaining the research, asking introductory questions, conducting the main interview, and concluding the interview. Finally, it briefly introduces questionnaires as another data collection tool and discusses their advantages and disadvantages compared to interviews.

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Practical Research 1

This document discusses different methods for conducting interviews in research. It describes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured interviews. It also discusses individual interviews, group interviews, and mediated interviews that can take place over the phone or online. The document outlines the typical steps in conducting an interview, including getting to know the participant, explaining the research, asking introductory questions, conducting the main interview, and concluding the interview. Finally, it briefly introduces questionnaires as another data collection tool and discusses their advantages and disadvantages compared to interviews.

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PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1

INTERVIEW
• A data gathering techniques that makes you verbally ask the subjects or
respondents questions to give answers to what your research study is trying
to look for
EXAMPLES OF INTERVIEW
• Can you tell me a little about yourself?
• How did you hear about the position?
• What do you know about the company?
• Why do you want this job?
• Why should we hire you?
• What are your greatest professional strengths?
• What do you consider to be your weaknesses?
TYPES OF INTERVIEW
STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
• This is an interview that requires the use of an interview schedule or a list of
questions answerable with one and only item from a set alternative
responses.
UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW
• The respondents answer the questions based on what they personally think
and feel about it.There are no suggested answers.
SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
• You prepare a schedule or a list of questions that is accompanied by a list of
expressions however, after choosing one from the suggested answers,the
respondents answer another set of questions to make them explain the
reason behind their choices.
APPROACHES OF INTERVIEW
INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEW
• Only one person is interviewed here.The reason behind this one-on-one
interview is the lack of trust the interviewees have among themselves.
EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEW
• Tell me about yourself?
• Are you easy to talk to?
• How do you handle stress and pressure?
• What motivates you?
• How do you evaluate success?
• What has been the greatest disappointment in your life?
• What are you passionate about?
• What are your pet peeves?
GROUP INTERVIEW
• You ask the question not to one person,but to a group of people at the
same time.
• They also called this as focus group interview
EXAMPLE OF GROUP INTERVIEW
• How would your colleagues describe you?
• How would you describe yourself?
• Why do you want this job?
• What interested you in our company?
• What do you have to offer the company?
• How do you work in a team?
• Describe your career history and future goals in 30 seconds.
MEDIATED INTERVIEW
• No face-to-face interview is true for this interview approach because this
takes plase through electronic communication devices such as
telephones,mobile phones,email,among others.Disregards non-verbal
communication :bodily movements,gestures,facial expressions,feelings,eye
contact,etc.
EXAMPLES OF MEDIATED INTERVIEW
TYPES OF MEDIATED INTERVIEW
• Synchronous mediated interview
=>you talk with the subjects through the telephone,mobile phone,or online
chat and also find time to see each other.

*asynchronous mediated interview


=>if only two persons are interviewed at a different time through the
internet,email,facebook,twitter,and other social network media.
STEPS IN CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW
STEP 1:GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER
• Naturally, seeing each other for the first time,your tendency would be to talk
with each other to establish friendship and a relaxed mood for both of you
STEP 2:HAVING AN IDEA OF THE RESEARCH
• This second step requires you to tell the respondents about nature of the
interview its purpose,importance,scope,and so on.Telling them of these
salient features of the activity enables them to anticipate not only the kind of
questions they will face,but also the appropriate answers they will give.
STEP 3:STARTING THE INTERVIEW
• You open this step with question to encourage the respondents to talk about
himself,including his or her age,family,current activities,and other things you
think appear special or interesting to him or her.Following these self-
introduction questions are questions on the subjects thoughts,attitudes,or
performance of hi or her job or any current work assignments.
STEP 4:CONDUCTING THE INTERVIEW
PROPER
• Interview questions in this step are on interviewee’s open and extensive
talking of things related to the research theme or research questions and on
those anticipated by him/her or emanating his/her
explanations,descriptions,or narrations of things.
STEP 5:PUTTING AN END TO THE INTERVIEW
• This step also reminds you of your responsibility to let the respondent be free
in airing whatever doubts or questions he or she has about the research
design,method,interview time and other aspects of the interview.
STEP 6:PONDERING OVER INTERVIEW
• This last step of the interview gives the respondent the opportunity to ask
questions about the interview activity and let him or her have an idea about
what wil happen next to the interview results.
QUESTIONNAIRE
• A paper containing a list of questions including the specific place and space
in the paper where you write the answers to the questions
PURPOSES OF A QUESTIONNAIRE
• To discover people’s thoughts and feelings about the topic of the research.
• To assist you in conducting an effective face-to-face interview with your
respondents.
• To help you plan how to obtain and record the answers to your questions.
• To make the analysis,recording and coding of data easier and faster.
TYPES OF QUESTIONNAIRE
POSTAL QUESTIONNAIRE
• This type of questionnaire goe to the respondent through postal service or
electronic mail.
SELF-ADMISTERED QUESTIONNAIRE
• This kind of questionnaire makes you act as the interviewer and the
interviewee at the same time.A questionnaire like this fits a structured kind of
interview .
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGE OF A
QUESTIONNAIRE
ADVANTAGES
• It is cheap as it does not require you to travel to hand the questionnaires to a
big number of respondents in a faraway place.
• It entails an easy distribution to respondents.
• It offers more opportunity for the respondents to ponder on their responses.
• It enables easy comparison of answers because of a certain degree of
uniformity among the questions.
• It has the capacity to elicit spontaneous or genuine answers from the
respondents.
DISADVANTAGES
• There is a possibility that some questions you distributed do not go back to
you and this prevents you from getting desired rate of response.
• Confusing and uninteresting questions to respondents fail to elicit the desired
responses.
• Owing to individual differences between the selected subjects and those in
the population,in general,the questionnaire is hard up in obtaining unbiased
results to represent the characteristics of the target population.
• It prevents you from being with the respondents physically to help them
unlock some difficulties in their understanding of the questions.
THE END
• Reporters
• Denise R. Abuyabor
• Shally mar B. Madriaga

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