Deck 9: Interviewing

Question 1

What are the three traditional approaches to interviewing?

A) Structured, stratified, unstructured
B) Structured, semi-structured, unstructured
C) Random, semi-structured, structured

Answer 1

Structured, semi-structured, unstructured

Question 2

How are interviewing and literature related?

A) They are not
B) Interviewing should be guided in some way by theoretical inquiry
C) It depends which interviewing and analytical approach is used

Answer 2

It depends which interviewing and analytical approach is used

Question 3

What are the main characteristics of a structured interview?

A) Each participant answers the same questions in the same order
B) All the questions are prepared ahead of time
C) It uses only open-ended questions
D) A and B
E) All of the above

Answer 3

A and B

Question 4

What is an "interview guide"?

A) It is a trainer who helps researcher practice interview skills
B) It is a check-list of things to do before conducting interviews
C) It is the list of questions that will be asked during the interview

Question 5

What are typical examples of structured interviews?

A) Self-reports
B) Political interviews
C) Medical interviews
D) A and C
E) All of the above

Question 6

What assets do structured interviews have over unstructured interviews?

A) It requires less skills from interviewers
B) It is less formal
C) It is less biased
D) A and C
E) All of the above

Question 7

In which ways are semi-structured and unstructured interviews similar?

A) There are used to collect a person's life history
B) They are conducted in locations chosen by the researchers
C) They mostly used questions to which participants answer by "yes" or "no"
D) All of the above

Question 8

What type of interview does NOT use a flexible or no interview guide?

A) Structured interviews
B) Unstructured interviews
C) Semi-structured interviews

Question 9

In which type of interview do researchers need to work on building "rapport"?

A) Structured and semi-structured interviews
B) Semi-structured interviews
C) Semi-structured and unstructured interviews

Question 10

When are semi-structured interviews typically NOT used?

A) When researchers can meet participants only once
B) When researchers plan to revisit the same participants several times
C) When ethnographic observation can precede the interviews

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT one of the main elements of semi-structured and unstructured interviews?

A) Rapport
B) Thick description
C) Ethical concerns
D) Strict interview guide

Question 12

Researchers use unstructured interviews in order to :

A) Minimize interviewer bias
B) Gain an in-depth understanding of participant's views, feelings, or beliefs
C) Get clear and succinct answers
D) All of the above

Question 13

What is the point at which no new data emerges called?

A) Data achievement
B) Data saturation
C) Thick data

Question 14

Which of the following components is typically NOT used as a criterion to determine researcher credibility:

A) Reflexivity
B) Level of experience in interviewing
C) Statistical skills
D) Degree of membership in the social context

Question 15

What is the warrant associated with being detailed, scrupulous called?

A) Coherence
B) Degree of membership
C) Reflexivity
D) Faithfulness

Question 16

What claims can be associated with interviews?

A) Descriptive
B) Interpretive
C) Evaluative
D) All of the above

Question 17

Following which methods can interview data be analyzed?

A) Content analysis
B) Rhetorical analysis
C) Grounded theory analysis
D) All of the above

Question 18

What stage of grounded theory analysis allows themes to emerge from data?

A) Talking notes
B) Writing memos
C) Coding
D) All of the above

Question 19

Which of the following procedures is NOT part of a grounded theory analysis?

A) Collecting data from participants
B) Transcribing interviews
C) Making empirical generalization
D) Coding

Question 20

How are memos useful for grounded theory analysis?

A) They help design research questions
B) They make it easier to write a coherent literature review
C) They facilitate making theoretical arguments and conclusions
D) They make the whole study less bias

Question 21

When is "rapport" especially valued and why?

Question 22

What aspects can be important to take into account when reflecting on the research project and our place within it?

Question 23

What ethical concerns are important when conducting interviews?

Question 24

In which ways can a researcher's degree of membership be both problematic and useful?

Question 25

Discuss the main assets of unstructured interviews and studies for which it is best suited.