23 Jul Interview Research Reports
This week, you will wrap up your EOC visits and write up your interview research reports. Here is some advice from Yin (2012):
For interviewing key persons, you must cater to the interviewee’s schedule and availability, not your own. The nature of the interview is much more open-ended, and an interviewee may not necessarily cooperate fully in sticking to your line of questions. Similarly, in making observations of real-life activities, you are intruding into the world of the subject being studied rather than the reverse; under these conditions, you are the one who may have to make special arrangements, to be able to act as an observer (or even as a participant-observer). As a result, your behavior— and not that of the subject or respondent— is the one likely to be constrained.
