By this point, you are required to have completed at least one of your field notes interviews.

By this point, you are required to have completed at least one of your field notes interviews. Describe your experience with the field notes interview(s) you have conducted to date. Include some details (technical, logistical, personal, professional, etc.) about the interview and the interview process itself. Use these prompts to help guide your description:

What did you enjoy about the experience?

What challenges (technical, personal, or otherwise) did you encounter?

How, if at all, was it different from what you expected, based on your course readings and your assumptions?

Based on your experience(s), how would you approach any subsequent qualitative interviewing?

What did you learn about qualitative data collection from this experience?

Your assignments for this week include conducting (at least your first) Field Notes Interview, and the fifth discussion thread assignment (focused on your experience conducting at least one interview). With regards to the field notes interview(s), here are a few “pointers” you will want to keep in mind:

Remember you are to interview two different individuals, both of whom have earned educational doctorates (Ed.D., Ph.D., or Psy.D.).

Don’t forget to check your recording equipment ahead of time (and bring extra batteries!). You are recording the interview so you can (later) transcribe it verbatim. If you use your smartphone, make sure you turn on the airplane mode/don’t disturb settings.

Because you are recording the interview(s), you can focus on listening!! The only reason to “take notes” would be to remind you of something you might want to circle back on later in the interview.

Make sure you use/stick to the questions IN THE TEMPLATE!

And finally, while I personally still prefer to conduct interviews face to face (f2f), you are also welcome to use some kind of “distance” or video technology (i.e. Zoom, Teams, FaceTime, Webex, telephone, etc.)

As noted earlier, remember that this week’s Discussion thread is focused on your experienceconducting (at least one) of your field notes interviews. Given the assignment time parameters, you will want to make sure you have conducted at least one interview well enough in advance to be able to contribute substantively to the week 5 Discussion Thread.