unstructured interview
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interview
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.tə.vjuː/us/ˈɪn.t̬ɚ.vjuː/
a meeting in which someone asks you questions to see if you are suitable for a job ...
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The reason that a semi-structured interview is preferred over anunstructuredinterviewis that semi-structured interviews tend to be more objective, systematic, replicable, and comprehensive.
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Yet this is exactly what occurs in anunstructuredinterview; thus, a structured interview attempts to standardize this popular selection tool.
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It is best to ask permission to visit the participant again at the time of theunstructuredinterview.
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The analysis draws on broadcast tapes and agendas of the event, as well as six unstructured interviews conducted in 2001 with organizers and witnesses.
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In the second stage, implementation was concurrent, with qualitative (participant observation, unstructured interviews, and seminar) and quantitative (final survey) instruments being employed simultaneously.
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The qualitative method used could be characterised as a form of participant observation rather than simply a series of qualitative or unstructured interviews.
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After first contacts and questionnaires, 50 half-structured and 50 unstructured interviews were conducted.
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In addition to the questionnaire survey, intensive unstructured interviews with 30 respondents were conducted over a four-year period, from 1983 to 1987.
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Unstructured interviews are very useful in ethnographic studies because they allow long interactions where participants can speak openly and give their own narrative accounts of a particular topic.
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Direct and indirect elicitation methods are examined in this chapter, with an in-depth consideration and comparison of structured versus unstructured interviewing techniques and retrospective versus observational case studies.
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