Designing interview questions Resources Purdue OWL Creating Good
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Designing interview questions
Resources • Purdue OWL, Creating Good Interview and Survey Questions – http: //owl. english. purdue. edu/owl/resource/55 9/06/ • Turner, D. W. Qualitative Interview Design: A Practical Guide for Novice Investigators – http: //www. engin. umich. edu/teaching/crltengin /engineering-education-researchresources/turner-qualitative-interviewdesign. pdf 2
Tips from OWL • Avoid biased questions • Avoid double-barreled (multipart) questions • Avoid ambiguous questions • Avoid wordy questions • Avoid questions that are not related to your goals 3
Tips from Shaun • What are you trying to find out? – Write backwards. Start with the results, figure out what to ask – Give participants an opportunity to share the details of your life 4
Debugging questions • Avoid questions that are… – Overly generic – False dichotomies (“do you prefer cheap items or high quality items? ” … “it depends”) – Multipart questions (double-barreled) – Wordy – Unnecessary – Just because someone has done something doesn’t mean they remember it • How many times have you looked at your phone today? 5
Pilot pilot • On your team members, family, friends… 6
Activity • Work on G 2 interview questions • Share your question list with another team – Other team identifies questions that are • • • Ambiguous Difficult to answer Double-barreled Unnecessary Confusing 7
• (10 minutes) Pair up with another group and test your questions – 1 person: ask questions – Others: take notes; what was difficult to answer? Ambiguous? etc 8
