A Semi-Structured Interview

A qualitative questionnaire can be used to gather facts about an individual’s beliefs, feelings and experiences. For example, asking a resident if they think lead is dangerous can get answered with both a positive and negative response. A positive response is “I’ve lived here for 37 years, raised two healthy sons…” contradicted with a negative response “I’ve lived here for 35 years as well, but now I’m the one with a child whose blood level is 31.5…”. Therefore, a qualitative questionnaire is appropriate when trying to understand an individual’s

Jerri was proudly nominated by Professor Jeff Blake, who has been a mentor to her during her time at NAU. Professor Blake said, "Jerri is an excellent student with a very positive attitude." After completing the summer term, Jerri will graduate with her Bachelor of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in Management. Jerri lives a busy life. In addition to taking two to three courses per semester, she also juggles her family life, and her many hobbies.

The sampling procedure that I would use when interviewing homeless individuals would be snowball sampling. As for the sampling procedure I would use when interviewing key leaders from local health care agencies would be purposive sampling. When using snowball sampling I would draw my samples by identifying a homeless individual, maybe I would ask someone who knows of a homeless individual who would want to speak with me and then I would ask that first person to identify other homeless individuals who would be interested in speaking with me and so on. When using purposive sampling I would draw my samples by purposively picking people who relate to my topic of interest, which is access to healthcare. Therefore when drawing my sample I would only

From my family, my parents, my sister and a few uncles are undocumented. The majority of my uncles got lucky when they came to the U.S. because when they came around the late or early 1980s they were granted residency. On the other hand, if my dad would have come earlier maybe he would have become a citizen as well. My dad came to the U.S. earlier than my mother and sister. When he got help and collected the money to crossed the border, all my uncles lived in the same apartment at South Gate.

At the young age of six, a dark haired little boy was enjoying his times that he spent with his family. Together, they’d spend time visiting other family members in other parts of Wisconsin, as well as going to the zoo, parks, and much more. He was a very active child who loved playing sports to keep himself occupied. This young boy is someone that I would eventually meet and we have found aspects of our life’s to be similar, for example coming from a rough home situation in common along with our strong work ethic, and our thoughts and feelings. His name is Travis Korff.

Next, since this is a phenomenological study criterion sampling works the best because this sampling focuses on people who have experienced the same phenomenon (Creswell, 2013). As far as the fidelity and trustworthiness aspect, the criterion sampling is useful for quality assurance (Creswell, 2013). In addition, I was considering 10 participants using open-ended questions and an audiotape.

Mock Interview Emanuela Hale Ball State University SPCE 609 11.18.2017 Mock Interview Assignment 1. Abby is a 3 year-old girl with autism. She is verbal and engages in tantruming behavior when asked to come to the dinner table.

My mother recently told me before moving to college, “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” This assignment of having to do an informational interview was so interesting and informative about the career I want to have someday. I don’t actually know of anyone that has the career that I want to do, so I reached out to my hometown veterinarian and asked her who she uses as her pharmaceutical sales representative. She referred me to the company of who she uses and gave me the number of someone to call that would be happy to do an interview with me. Her name is Cassandra Buland, and she is the territory sales manager of Virbac.

As a Human Service major what better way to learn more about the profession than from someone who has experience in the field. I chose to interview a friend of mine, Florence Martus. Mrs. Martus is employed through the city of Fredericksburg, VA with the Department of Social Services. This agency is located at 608 Jackson St, Suite 100 Fredericksburg, VA 22401. Virginia Department of Social Services provides many services to the public such as, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid, Adoption, Child Care Assistance, Refugee Resettlement Service, and Child and Adult Protective Services.

Conducting unstructured interviews will however allow the researcher to establish a rapport with the participants in the study and will help the researcher to discover the ‘true self’ of the participants and not necessarily the way they portray

This debriefing helps participants understand the true purpose of the study, addresses any concerns or discomfort they may have experienced, and provides support if necessary. In the Little Albert experiment, there was no debriefing session conducted for Albert or his mother. Failing to provide a debriefing session denies the participant an opportunity to understand the study's goals and potentially restore their emotional state, further compounding the ethical concerns surrounding the

These methods are commonly used in for data collection in narrative inquiries. According to Creswell (2005), narrative inquiry involves problem identification, purposeful selection of the research sample, collection of stories from the participants, collaboration between the researcher and the individual telling the story, retelling the narratives given by participants and finally the researcher writing the experiences of the participants, these are the procedures that the researcher proposes to follow in the proposed

For this professional interview assignment, I reached out to Lauren Wilson. She is a local professional that has the career I will soon pursue. Lauren is a multi-media journalist/ reporter at WEWS News Channel 5 in Cleveland, Ohio. Though my interests are more along the producing/managing side, I figured many producers start off working as reporters and work their way up the ladder.

Punch (2008) adds that qualitative research not only uses numerical and unstructured data but has research questions and methods which are more wide-ranging at the start, and become more focused as the study advances. THE ADVANTAGES OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Barbour (2008, p.11-140) brings out distinctive points on qualitative research which are; 1. Answers very difficult questions from those addressed by quantitative research. 2. Can make visible and unpick the mechanisms which link particular variables, by looking at explanations, or accounts provided by those involved.

The use of open-ended, in-depth interview questions allows for the generalization of findings and allows for studying an organization or entity in-depth within a limited timeframe (Yin, 2014; Dumez, 2015). The qualitative multiple-case study methodology will provide narrative illustrations accompanied by detailed descriptive stories and will uncover trends that will help respond to the study purpose (Lewis, 2016; Kienstra & Heijden,