Responses should be a minimum of 250 words and include direct questions. You may challenge, support or supplement another student’s answer using the terms, concepts and theories from the required readings. Also, do not be afraid to respectfully disagree where you feel appropriate; as this should be part of your analysis process at this academic level.

Respond to Amy:

When reading into the specifics of qualitative research, I found that there are several types of interviews that can be conducted to perform such research. Structured Interviews comprise of controlling organized surveys, and interviewers are prepared to pose inquiries (generally fixed decision) in a standardized fashion. Semi structured interviews are led based on a free structure comprising of open ended questions that characterize the territory to be investigated, at least initially, and from which the interviewer or interviewee may wander as to seek after a thought in more detail. In depth interviews are less organized than this, and may cover just a couple of issues, however in a lot more prominent detail. Further inquiries from the interviewer in this discussion would be founded on what the interviewee stated and would comprise generally of illumination and probing for more information. Qualitative interview studies address diverse inquiries from those addressed by quantitative research. (Britten, 1995).

Qualitative interviewers endeavor to be interactive and sensitive to the language and ideas utilized by the interviewee, and they attempt to keep the plan adaptable. They mean to go beneath the outside of the theme being talked about, investigate what individuals state in however much detail as could be expected, and reveal new territories or thoughts that were not foreseen at the beginning of the research. It is imperative that interviewers watch that they have comprehended respondents’ implications as opposed to depending on their own suspicions. This is especially significant if there is clear potential for misconception. A subjective research interviewer expects to find the interviewee’s very own system of implications; the research task is to abstain from forcing the analyst’s structures and standpoints as much as possible. (Britten, 1995).

The other specific forum of qualitative research is Focus Groups. “The planning for a focus group project includes a number of decisions about how the data will be collected. Considered in order of their impact on the nature of the data, the first decision concerns who will participate in the groups. The next decision determines how structured the groups will be, including the level of moderator involvement. After that, there are further decisions about the size of each group and the number of groups in the total project. Focus group projects most often use homogeneous strangers as participants, rely on a relatively structured interview with high moderator involvement, have 6 to 10 participants per group, and have a total of three to five groups per project” (Morgan, 1997).

The issue with focus groups is that groups are much of the time led with purposively chosen samples in which the members are enlisted from a set number of sources; which is normally just one. This sort of bias is an issue whenever it is disregarded due to the ideal that translating information from a restricted example as speaking to a full range of encounters and sentiments. On the off chance that a specific enlistment source limits the nature of the information that is accessible, at that point this powers the decision between living with those impediments and finding different sources of participants that will decrease these predispositions. A decent factor to remember when directing a focus group research is using groups that are sectioned by background or job based contrasts has the expense of requiring more groups since it takes a specific minimum number of groups inside every class to see that classification’s scope of responses to a subject. Utilizing various division criteria makes the choices about group structure more like an experimental design (Morgan, 1997).

References

Britten, N. (1995). Qualitative Research: Qualitative interviews in medical research. BMJ, 251-311. doi:10.1136

Morgan, D. (1997). Focus Groups as Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.