Exam 11: Using Interviews and Focus Groups

Interviews and focus groups are data gathering methods.

Focus groups and interviews are most frequently used to generated qualitative research, or qualitative data in research.

In asynchronous online focus groups, the focus group happens out of real time, using listservs, mailing lists, or discussion groups.

Quantitative data can be generated by focus groups and interviews using highly structured data gathering schedules, and/or through carrying out a large number of focus groups or interviews.

Interviews are used as data gathering methods when:

The researcher develops the design of the interview and/or focus group schedule in the:

Bias can also refer to some systematic error that has somehow been introduced to the research.

In quantitative research, interviews are conducted in a structured, systematic manner. The researcher designs a structured interview schedule, which is like a questionnaire, and follows it rigidly, asking each interviewee the same questions in the same order.

Phenomenology in social science research is:

The ontological perspectives with constructivist and interpretivist philosophical frameworks hold reality to be multiple, individually interpreted, or socially constructed.

An interview or focus group schedule is:

The decision on which data gathering methods to use is made based on:

Data gathering techniques are part of the:

Interviews are conducted differently in quantitative and qualitative research.

In a group interview, the researcher:

In a one-to-one face-to-face interview one researcher conducts the interview:

Open questions tend to generate long or relatively long answers.

The participants in the research must:

A focus group is the same as a group interview.

Name the five different types of interview detailed in the text.