Qualitative interview process seeks to involve the contestant, inspiring him or her to deliver clear and valuable information. Some of the questions of best research practices has to do with how to consistently collect clear and valid data; application of trustworthiness, credibility, confirmability, and being able to be an effective scientists and a researcher.
The presentation of the interview’s open-ended questions and proper engagement with the interviewee are the tools that guide dependability in qualitative interview process. In the article of Yob & Brewer (n.d), the code of analysis enlightened how the interviewees were asked to define social change while providing real-world examples. Their responses provided a rich and dip areas of ideas that reflect the meaning of social change for many university graduate students. For example, inductive analysis across cases yields patterns and themes, the fruit of qualitative research. It is vital that interviewers check that they have understood respondents’ meanings instead of relying on their own assumptions (Britten, 1995). This will yield an effective transferability of data in the collection process. Face-to-face Interviews are among the most familiar strategies for collecting qualitative data. The different qualitative interviewing methods emerged from diverse disciplinary perspectives, resulting in a wide variation among interviewing approaches (Dicicco-Bloom, B., & Crabtree, 2006).
Dicicco-Bloom, B., & Crabtree, B. F. (2006). The qualitative research interview. Medical Education, 40(4), 314-321.
