HLTD04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Semi-Structured Interview, Unstructured Interview, Structured Interview
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Interview the most widely used method in qualitative research: ethnography involves qualitative interviewing, can do qualitative interviews without an ethnographic study. Qualitative research preferred because of flexibility, its economy of time and. Types of qualitative interviews: effort relative to ethnography. Interviewing, transcribing interviews, and analysis of transcripts although time consuming. But better then spending long time research subjects: unstructured, semi structured, in quantitative research-> highly structured to maximize reliability and. Differences between structured and unstructured validity in measuring key concepts. Allows greater freedom to modify and add research ideas: in qualitative -interviewee"s perspectives and concerns are taken into consideration. Quantitative research-> interview driven by research agenda of the person conducting the research: qualitative-> going off tangents encouraged. Order and wordings of questions can vary- depends on what the interviewee considers important and relevant. Quantitative-> inflexible structured interviews- to standardize the interactions with all interviewees: qualitative -> researcher wants detailed answers.
