Charmaz: Semi-Structured Interview

What factors contribute to their conflict resolution styles? Do you know of anyone who handles relationship conflicts effectively? If so, describe their conflict

Research on interviews has generally shown that standardized procedures are higher in their reliability and validity than unstructured interviews. Learning how structured

Furthermore, the researchers have obviously stated and justified that data was meaningfully gathered using a semi-structured interview where prompts and probing questions techniques were used to guide the participants. According to Wilson (2012) that 'semi-structured interviews allow for more flexibility. They involve having a set of guiding questions that

When discussing the research question and hypothesis, one might interrelate these two concepts when in fact these terms differ from one another. The research question guides the research by creating a question that pertains to a particular topic one might be interested in gaining more knowledge in that particular area (L. Sabol, personal communication, April, 2016). Research questions can come from values, theories, or previous research (L. Sabol, personal communication, April, 2016). The research question within the article that the researcher wanted to examine is, “To what extent do pre-college characteristics and the academic performance of Black male student-athletes differ from their student-athlete peers?”(Horton, 2015, p. 289). With this research question the author Horton (2015), is attempting to figure out whether there is a relationship between Black male college student

Phenomenological interview limitations may appear due to the researcher’s lack of experience in conducting interviews (Downey, 2015); which may interfere with the researcher’s focus and intentionality (Ashworth, 2017). Limitations may occur with the relationship between the researcher and the interviewee, including power struggles which might affect trust and honest participant reflections (Boucher, 2017). Further, time limitations could impede upon a participants deliberation process during the interview process (Downey, 2015). If a researcher is to understand the essence of a phenomenon; a suspension of judgment is required during participant interviews (Ashworth, 2017). Additionally, the researcher will need to be extremely attentive to experience the study through the participants’ eyes (Kelley, 2016). Individuals may choose not to answer every question, which is acceptable; yet, missing data can also become a limitation to the study. However, if enough participants do not answer the same question, the question might need to be reframed or removed; additionally, secondary data, such as technical reports, white papers or additional publications might be necessary to validate the research question (Johnston, 2014).

On May 16, 2017 I interviewed Jaimie Resendiz about what it means to be American to her. Jaimie is 29 years old, shes been living most of her life here in Orange County. She recently moved to a different county, which is, Riverside County. She has her own house with three children, and two small dogs. Although, Jaimie has kids she isn’t so sure if she wants to get married.

In order to meet the study objectives, in addition to the case study, a semi-structured interview was conducted using non-random sampling. As respondents of the interview had to have particular characteristics such as ability to value property and knowledge about the property market, estate agents were contacted. A total of 7 interviews were conducted with estate agents in the West Hampstead/Kilburn area. The interviews lasted approximately 10 minutes. The participants were as follows:

The participants who were a part of this study attended three elite, predominately White Research 1 universities. (p. 64). To expand the research, participants should have included comprehensive colleges/universities or even community colleges.

I interviewed a psychologist for my second field research. Sharon Epel has been a licensed psychotherapist for 12 years and has been a family and marriage counsellor in her own private practice. She has done extensive work with schools and has been a therapist to a variety of temperaments and personalities. I wanted to understand how she helps people, and what she notices about them in her sessions. I tried to create an informative interview that would benefit me by giving me a look into how people’s brains influence their emotions. I hoped that this interview would give me a solid understanding of introverts and extraverts and their differences.

Once the sites were chosen, the researchers used many methods to gather their data which included semi structured in-person interviews,

Litzy seems like your average sixteen year old girl. She is involved in cross country and loves fashion, crafty things and going to church. She loves going to school and enjoys learning new information every day. With all of these activities going on, she is always busy. Like a lot of students her age, she has ideas on what she wants to do after high school graduation. However, she is in fact not your “average sixteen year old girl.”

As with any teacher, Ms. Conway was short on time and I felt she was unable to give me the in-depth interview that I was hoping to produce. She was perplexed why we were including ELL students in our conversation about special education. I explained to her about our class conversation about the concerns that some ELL students were receiving IEP’s based on their language barrier and not a learning disability. She was surprised and confused how any ELL student could be given an IEP without going through the due process under IDEA that any other student would be required to complete.

The procedure used to collect information for the research study is a survey and the techniques used were interview and questionnaire. An interview is when questions are posed to an individual to obtain information (What Is Survey Research? - Definition, Methods & Types, n.d.). A questionnaire is a series of written questions a participant answers (What Is Survey Research? - Definition, Methods & Types, n.d.). Follow- up questionnaires were administered to participant face- to- face and participants who were living long distance were interviewed by telephone.

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The proposed methodology is a primary qualitative approach of semi-structured interviews. This method has been chosen as the focus of this