Waggoner Library: Dissertations: Interview Methodology

Interview Protocols

Interview Protocol Design
Recommendations for creating an interview protocol for both structured and semi-structured interviews.
Interview Protocol Bank
Links to tools in the Education Evaluation Toolkit, What I Can Evaluate page. It will be updated as more tools are available. Specific topics of interview protocols include: Sense of belonging; Self-regulated learning interview protocol and coding frame, and the VNOS (Views on the Nature Of Science) interview protocol.

Education Evaluation Toolkit

Originally developed by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship with teaching practitioners in mind. However, it is also beneficial for anyone wishing to conduct an educational evaluation as research. These interactive pages cover a range of tools and resources that you can use to carry out evaluation, including questionnaires and interviews.

Tools and resources for evaluation

Questionnaires

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Interviews

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Pulse Survey

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What Can I Evaluate?

Self-efficacy: Self-efficacy is the belief in one's own capability to plan and perform actions to attain a specific outcome (Bandura, 1997).

Tools to Assess Self-efficacy

Sense of Belonging - The sense that students are important and respected members of their universities (Anderman & Freeman, 2004).

Tools to Assess Sense of Belonging

Self-evaluation - ways to systematically reflect on one’s own teaching and its effectiveness so as to find ways of improving.

Tools to Assess Self-evaluation

Agency -refers to an individual’s psychosocial capacity for intentional, self-directed, and self-regulated action.

Tools to Assess Agency

Learning & Understanding -evaluate learning and understanding as experienced by students.

Tools to Assess Learning & Understanding

Interview Methodology Resources

eBooks about the INTERVIEW Research Methodology

Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond by Anne Galletta; William E. Cross (Foreword by)
Call Number: eBook, click the title to view the book online.
ISBN: 9780814732953
Publication Date: 2013
An in-depth, step-by-step guide to using semi-structured interviews in qualitative research. The volume offers a close look at the inductive nature of qualitative research, the use of researcher reflexivity, and the systematic and iterative steps involved in data collection, analysis, and interpretation. It offers guidance on developing an interview protocol, including arranging questions and ways to evoke analytically rich data.
Research Interviewing: The Range of Techniques by Bill Gillham
Call Number: eBook, click the title to view the book online.
ISBN: 9780335225132
Publication Date: 2005
Covers distance and face-to-face interviewing, from the unstructured and naturalistic to the highly structured, focused, and time-efficient. Emphasis is placed on using the most appropriate methods for the research purpose and identifying which method is practicable. Ch. 3 (The Importance of Question/Topic Development) is practical and easy to use, this book is essential for anyone doing research interviewing.
The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research by Jaber F. Gubrium (Editor); James A. Holstein (Editor); Amir Marvasti (Editor); Karyn D. McKinney (Editor)
Call Number: eBook, click the title to view the book online.
ISBN: 9781452262031
Publication Date: 2012
Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format. The book begins with an overview of the interview's history and conceptual transformations, followed by chapters that discuss the main components of interview practice. Three entirely new sections include "Logistics of Interviewing," "Self and Other in the Interview," and "Ethics of the Interview."

Journal Articles and Documents

Prompts, Not Questions: Four techniques for crafting better interview protocols
The article title is linked to open-source access through ResearchGate.net. Join for free and request the article PDF from the authors.
- Jiménez, T. & Orozco, M. (2021). Prompts, not questions: Four techniques for crafting better interview protocols. Qualitative Sociology, 44(13), 507–528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-021-09483-2
Archibald, M. M., Ambagtsheer, R. C., Casey, M. G., & Lawless, M. (2019). Using Zoom videoconferencing for qualitative data collection: Perceptions and experiences of researchers and participants. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-8. doi
Advances in communication technologies offer new opportunities for the conduct of qualitative research. Among these, Zoom—an innovative videoconferencing platform—has a number of unique features that enhance its potential appeal to qualitative and mixed-methods researchers.