interviews in education

Created by: lucyjuliia
Created on: 30-05-22 17:13


	interviews in education
	Advantages unstructured are able to build a rapport and feel more comfortable group interviews reduces power of adult authority can reveal interactions between the groups	Disadvantages young interviewees may be less reluctant to talk, not understand long questions or have shorter attention span leads to incomplete data and unvalidity. if conducted in school or classroom, affects how comfortable - represents higher authority. teachers may fear other colleagues are overhearing take long hours to conduct, interfere with school timetable and parents have busy work lives structured interviews will make students unlikely to respond as interviewer appears too much like a teacher bell - students may see an interviewer as a 'teacher in disguise', may alter answers to seem socially desirable e.g how much time they spend on homework group interviews may feel peer pressure and conform to the right answer with what everybody else is saying impossible to standardise and reduce reliability to compare findings if there are too many answers free flowing
	Evaluation unstructured interviews are good in developing valid data however would interfere too much into the schools timetable and parent lives. structured interviews lack validity and will reduce response rates as interviewer looks like a teacher and will scare them. social desirability is a problem in all. group interviews reduce authority but increase conformity, invalid data. parents may reject being asked about sensitive issues such as sexual harassment and let their children be asked questions about sensitive topics.

interviews in education

Advantages

unstructured are able to build a rapport and feel more comfortable
group interviews reduces power of adult authority
can reveal interactions between the groups

Disadvantages

young interviewees may be less reluctant to talk, not understand long questions or have shorter attention span leads to incomplete data and unvalidity.
if conducted in school or classroom, affects how comfortable - represents higher authority. teachers may fear other colleagues are overhearing
take long hours to conduct, interfere with school timetable and parents have busy work lives
structured interviews will make students unlikely to respond as interviewer appears too much like a teacher
bell - students may see an interviewer as a 'teacher in disguise', may alter answers to seem socially desirable e.g how much time they spend on homework
group interviews may feel peer pressure and conform to the right answer with what everybody else is saying
impossible to standardise and reduce reliability to compare findings if there are too many answers free flowing

Evaluation

unstructured interviews are good in developing valid data however would interfere too much into the schools timetable and parent lives. structured interviews lack validity and will reduce response rates as interviewer looks like a teacher and will scare them. social desirability is a problem in all. group interviews reduce authority but increase conformity, invalid data. parents may reject being asked about sensitive issues such as sexual harassment and let their children be asked questions about sensitive topics.

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sharleenganerytl57

Report Wed 15th March, 2023 @ 17:41

I didn't quite understand that either.

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