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Interviews

Interviews. A Research Method for Self-Directed Learning. Self-Directed Teaching for Self-Directed Learning. Introduction: The Interview Assignment as Primary Research Interview Preparation Interview Appointment My Reflection on the Interview Conclusion.

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Interviews

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  1. Interviews A Research Method for Self-Directed Learning

  2. Self-Directed Teaching for Self-Directed Learning • Introduction: The Interview Assignment as Primary Research • Interview Preparation • Interview Appointment • My Reflection on the Interview • Conclusion

  3. The Interview Assignment as Primary Research • Types of Primary Research • Other Uses of Surveys and Interviews • My Purpose in the Interview Assignment

  4. Types of Primary Research • Experiments • determine necessary relationships • Studies of "great" literature and philosophy • arrive at an hermeneutic or deconstructive interpretation • *Surveys and Interviews • identify or verify a need, a desire, an attitude, or an opinion

  5. Other Uses of Surveys and Interviews • Surveys - to advertise in an unbiased and unobtrusive way • Job ads and applications are like surveys • Interviews - to supplement secondary research when an expert is the interview subject • The referees on your résumé are such “experts” about your work history

  6. My Research Purpose in the Interview Assignment • to identify or verify students’ interpretation of their final grades • to assist students’ ongoing learning in vocational communications after ENL1813T • to consider Communications I graduates’ assessment of the course model and curriculum in planning future versions

  7. Interview Preparation • Start of Preparation • My Interview Questions • Possible Question Topics • Questions Appropriate for My Purpose • Your Interview Practice

  8. Start of Preparation • If you are an interview candidate, I will contact you by the method you indicate in your Cover Letter and Resume Assignment submission • I will mention the reasons why I value your expertise • RECORD the time, place, subject, purpose, and length of the proposed interview as I specify these

  9. My Interview Questions • As an interviewer, I will draft a list of at least five main open-ended questions that I will ask you. These will be similar but not identical for all students • I will prepare back-up questions that will vary more from student to student • I may ask unprepared questions as well

  10. Possible Question Topics • opinions about components of the grading formula • your interpretation of the way I might justify the grade for which you applied • your relevant experience with similar courses or with other challenges • your portfolio as evidence of your grade • other reasons you believe you should receive the grade for which you applied

  11. Questions Appropriate for My Purpose • I will avoid asking yes/no or true/false questions • I will draft several back-up questions for each of my main questions • These back-up questions may help to draw out your explanations • I will likely not ask all of them

  12. Your Interview Practice • As interviewees, prepare detailed answers to questions that you think I may ask you • I may ask similar questions to those you might like to ask me right after the interview • Nevertheless, do not memorize or rehearse exact responses to these unknown questions

  13. Interview Appointment • Keeping the Appointment • Interview Introduction • “Moments of Truth”

  14. Keeping the Appointment • Note the place and date of your interview • Dress in a respectful manner appropriate for the time and place of your interview • BRING YOUR PORTFOLIO • Arrive five to fifteen minutes early at your rendez-vous site

  15. Interview Introduction • I will record your full name and programme at Algonquin or position elsewhere (if applicable) • I will begin the interview with a statement of my research interest and a survey of the questions to be covered • You should anticipate details that I may find useful even though I did not plan to ask about them

  16. “Moments of Truth” • Interview Process Seen as Conducted by Me • Interview Process Fulfillment by You • “Debriefing”

  17. My Reflection on the Interview • My Interpretation of Evidence • Research Cross-Referencing

  18. My Interpretation of Evidence • I will expand on the notes I took in our interview • This is best done as a careful re-reading and re-copying of the notes • For my own objective - an assessment of my methods in our course - I will cross-reference any secondary or other primary research with my interview notes

  19. Research Cross-Referencing • If you covered the same topic as one of my secondary sources: • I’ll keep the information if it is the same in all sources • if you accurately detail a concept or observation contradicted by one of my secondary sources, I’ll trust you over it • if you seem not as accurate or as detailed, I’ll trust the secondary literature

  20. ConclusionI’ll have great interest in all consistent information from all sources. It should help me become a “self-directed teacher”!

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