INTERVIEW

Interview
• It is a data gathering
technique that
makes you verbally
ask the subjects or
respondents
questions to give
answers to what
your research study
is trying to look for.
 Types of Interview
1. Structured Interview

Requires the use of an interview

schedule or a list of questions
answerable with one and only item
from a set of alternative responses.
2. Unstructured Interview

The respondents answer the

questions based on what they
personally think and feel about it.
3. Semi-Structured

The characteristics of the first two

types are found in the third type.
Here, you prepare a schedule or a
list of questions that is accompanied
by a list of expressions from where the
respondents can pick out the correct
answer.
 However, after choosing one
from the suggested answers, the
respondents answer another set of
questions to make them explain
the reasons behind their choices.
 Approaches
1.Individual Interview
2.Group Interview
3.Mediated Interview
 Steps in Conducting an Interview
1. Getting to know each other
2. Having an Idea of the Research
3. Starting the Interview
4. Conducting the Interview Proper
5. Putting an End to the Interview
6. Pondering Over Interview Afterthoughts
 QUESTIONNAIRE
• It is a paper containing a list of questions
including the specific place and space in the
paper where you write that answers to the
questions.
• This prepared set of question elicits factual or
opinionated answers from the respondents’
writing through his or her acts of checking one
chosen answer from several options or of
writing on a line provided for any opinionated
answer.
 Purposes of a Questionnaire
1. To discover people’s thoughts and feelings
about the topic of the research.
2. To assist you in conducting an effective face-
to-face interview with your respondents.
3. To help you plan how to obtain and record
the answers to your questions.
4. To make the analysis, recording, and coding
of data easier and faster.
Types of Questionnaire
1.Postal
Questionnaire
2.Self-administered
Questionnaire
 Individual Task

1. What are the types of Interview?

2. What are the approaches in
conducting the interview?

½ piece of paper (crosswise)

 Group Task
1. Write one sample of Postal
Interview guide and one Self-
administered questionnaire guide (3
questions each).
2. Present your sample on a piece of
cartolina and show it in the class.