a way to find information by asking other people questions
a research technique for needs analysis that involves questioning as many people who have information to share as possible. Typically, these people would be the sponsor, SMEs, and prospective learners.
are telephone or face-to-face discussions with an individual respondent or a group of people. They provide the opportunity to probe and explore responses given. Interviews are useful in collecting sensitive information that respondents may not wish to write down. Focus groups are a type of group interview.
A research tool in which a researcher asks questions of participants; interviews are often audio- or video-taped for later transcription and analysis.
An interaction in which a teacher presents a child with a planned sequence of questions. These exchanges can be a rich source of information about how the child is constructing concepts or using procedures, and they also give the teacher direction for modifying instruction.
are conversations or direct questioning with an individual or group of people. The interviews can be conducted in person or on the telephone. The length of an interview can vary from 20 minutes to over an hour. Interviewers should be trained to follow agreed-upon procedures (protocols).
An interview is a two-way purposeful conversation initiated by an interviewer to obtain information that is relevant to some research purpose. The participants are typically strangers and the topics and pattern of discussion are dictated by the interviewer. Interviewing is perhaps the most ubiquitous method of obtaining information from people. Interviews are ordinarily quite direct and a great deal of information is generally got from respondents by direct questioning (Emory, 1980; Kerlinger, 1980).