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Respond to at least one of your colleagues’ posts in 125 words and provide additional insight as to what makes a good qualitative

Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.

Angelia Slavings 

Characteristics of a  Qualitative Interview

       According to Ravitch and Carl (2021), an excellent qualitative interview's key characteristics are relational, contextual, non-evaluative, person-centered, temporal, partial, subjective, and nonneutral. Interviews can be semistructured or unstructured. Ratvich and Carl (2021) also wrote that trust and reciprocity are vital to the relationships that need to be established for a quality interview. A non-valuative interview aims to understand what the participants think, feel and experience. Researchers should ask general questions that lead to responses that open the door to probing and follow-up questions to get the complete picture of the participant. Rubin and Rubin(2012) say that researchers play an active role in the interview process by encouraging the conversation by the participants and reacting to the participants by asking detailed follow-up questions. Participants may be more willing to participate if they feel connected with the motivating, knowledgeable researchers and engaging. The key elements of an interview are that the researcher is looking for materials that have depth, detail, nuance, and are rich with thematic materials. In the two videos by Walden Unviersty (2016), the second interview met these criteria, providing rich, thematic materials from the questions and subsequent follow-up questions. 

      The Yob and Brewer (n.d) interview questions began as generalized questions. There are follow-up questions designed to have the participants answer in further detail to clarify concepts and themes (Rubin & Rubin,2012). The questions from the Yob and Brewer article used language that the participant could understand and allowed interviewees to answer in their way and focus on their experiences (Rubin & Rubin,2012). The interview guide provided in the learning resources will also enable the telephone interviewee to answer the social change question in a way that sequences the questions in a way that connects the questions; they do not restrict the intervenes answers or restrict what they can say later on (Rubin &Rubin,2012). In addition to being clear on the intent of the interview and obtaining permission to record the interview, the interviewer should also have a protocol, checklist, or outline for the interview (Rubin & Rubin,2012). When the interview is completed, the researcher should thank the participants and send them copies of the transcripts and notes. The researcher should also write an interview summary for future reference detailing some of the external nuances of the interview. Quality interviewing will take time and practice; keeping memes, recording, and coding the interviews will ensure a robust and rigorous part of the qualitative research process.

 

References

Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2021). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological (2nd ed.) Sage Publications.

Rubin, H. J., & Rubin, I. S. (2012). Qualitative interviewing: The  art of hearing data (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2016). Doctoral research: Interviewing techniques, part one [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2016). Doctoral research: Interviewing techniques, part one [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Yob, I. & Brewer P. (n.d.) Working toward the common good: An online university's perspectives on social change, 1-25