Exam 9: Interviews: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

Coding involves identifying themes across interview data by reading and re-reading interview transcripts until the researcher has a clear idea about what sorts of themes come up across the interviews.

Doris was conducting a research on the careers of high school athletes.She decided to meet at Stuart's house for an interview,as he was the sports coordinator at the neighborhood high school.On arrival she noticed that most of the walls of his house were covered with posters of political powers with strong messages.During the interview she found herself to be distracted by these posters and wasn't as attentive as she should have been.This scenario signifies the importance of _____ in interviews.

In-depth interviews are semi-structured meetings between a researcher and respondent in which the researcher asks a series of open-ended questions.

A(n)_____ is a document containing the list of questions and answer options that quantitative interviewers read to respondents.

A(n)_____ is a semi-structured meeting between a researcher and respondent in which the researcher asks a series of open-ended questions.

Qualitative interviewing is time intensive and can be expensive.

Analysis is the process of identifying the average response to an interval or ratio level question.

Write a note on conducting quantitative interviews.

How is quantitative interview data analyzed?

Researchers revealing aspects of their identity and/or sharing stories in an interview is way of overcoming _____.