why’re focus groups good?
- comfort
- bounce and build ideas off
- more honest because they don’t feel like they are people pleasing the interviewer
how many focus groups should be conducted and how do you know when you have done enough?
10-15 groups but you know when you hit enough when the searcher can predict what will be said (theoretical saturation).
how are participants selected in natural groups and how many per group
4 per group, people who already know each other of have come kind of interaction
what are some disadvantages of natural groups?
pre existing styles of interaction or they might already have some granted assumptions
what are advantages of focus groups?
- lots of different perspectives
what are disadvantages of focus groups?
- less control of the discussion
- data analysis is more difficult
- there could be dominant personally traits
what kind of method is the most popular in qualitative research
interviewing
what are some characteristics of qualitative interviews?
- aims to get a story
- more like a conversation
what are structured interviews?
- pre established questions with a limited set of response options
what are the benefits of qualitative interviews over structured
- more open ended
- greater interest on the interviewee’s perspective
- tangents are encouraged
what is unstructured interviewing?
- uses brief points to introduce topics
what is the difference between structures and semi-structured
semi structured is a mixture between structure and unstructure where some questions are prepared but some are asked on the spot
- interview usually goes on for awhile
what are the issues that come from recording and transcribing interviews
inaccurate interpretation
what are the problems with online interviewing
takes longer
more difficult to probe
higher non response
harder to do body language
what are the kind of questions used in interviews?
introducing
follow up
probing questions
specifying question
direct
indirect
structuring
intrepting
silence
what are the 5 qualities of a good interviewer from Rew?
authenticity
credibility
intuitiveness
receptivity
reciprocity
what are the 10 qualities of a good interviewer from Kvale?
knowledgeable
structuring
clear
gentle
sensitive
open
steering
critical
remembering
intepreting
what are some advantages of ethnography over qualitative interviewing?
- better for seeing through the eyes of the participants
- can discover thing s that are taken for granted
- more naturalistic
what are some advantages of qualitative interviewing ethnography?
can reconstruct past events and future plans
- greater breadth of topics
- addresss specific issues
