Identify two or more strategies for addressing difficult participants within the interview process. Assess the effectiveness of your identified strategies based on scholarly research.

Dealing With Difficult Participants Interviews are the primary data collection method for qualitative research. During your interview(s) you may encounter participants who are difficult. Interviewees may provide monosyllabic (e.g., yes/no) responses. Perhaps the participants provide excessively long answers, not addressing the question, or, perhaps participants start interviewing you. How will you deal with these challenges? […]

Develop a draft interview guide consistent with your chosen approach, using the feedback you received in your Workshop.

The Final Project is a stepwise process, and its goal is to leave you well-prepared by the end of this course to execute on your qualitative research study plan. This week, you will begin Step II of the Final Project, which is drafting your interview guide. The development and feedback will take place in the […]

What are the four major sources of measurement error? Illustrate by example how each of these might affect measurement results in a face-to-face interview situation.

What are the four major sources of measurement error? Illustrate by example how each of these might affect measurement results in a face-to-face interview situation. Below are listed some objects of varying degrees of abstraction. Suggest properties of each of these objects that can be measured by each of the four basic types of scales. […]