My class interview is scheduled for tomorrow a.m. and in preparation, I did a practice interview with myself this morning. This procedure was inspired by Dr. Chenail's article "Interviewing the investigator: Strategies for addressing instrumentation and researcher bias concerns in qualitative research" (The Qualitative Report, Jan 2011; http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-1/interviewing.pdf) After spending a few minutes trying to figure out how to pause the recording (with an Olympus DM recorder, you simply hit the record button during the recording and hit it again to restart), I went forward with the initial question from the syllabus and also had copies of the 9 follow up questions. I formed two columns with "events" and "meanings." Unfortunately, I was not able to fill in events/meanings while I played the role of co-researcher. I do not plan to transcribe this interview but I will listen to it again to fill out that portion. I tried to pick up some key words to ask my follow up questions, and I had a time target of 15-20 minutes (not a problem for me; I can just keep talking - my response to the first question was around 6:30). I am also not going to post the recording because I did end up mentioning some names of people in my current program in conjunction with projects, classes, or interactions with me and it is not appropriate for me to share that information in this setting. I do plan to summarize some of what I said when I fill in the event/meanings columns and I will post that, probably later today.
What I did decide to do was to change the first question. I was uncomfortable reading it ("Would you please tell me about your experience learning qualitative research?") as written, so I ended up asking myself "What would you like to tell me about your experience learning qualitative research?" For the purposes of this interview, since I do not know anything about my co-researcher's experience, other than that she/he is a student in QRGP 6301 this semester, I may not want to use the "What would" which is a sort of filter. I knew from my responses in the practice interview that I could approach the question from multiple directions, so I chose another today and will use yet another tomorrow, when i an interviewed, assuming it is appropriate. What I may instead do is : "Tell me about your experiences learning qualitative research." This fits more with my interviewer 'style.'
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
Categories
|