Interviews
Objectives:
Procedures:
Example:
In a face-to-face class students were presented with the following questions of which they were to choose the top interests:
- To gather information about a class or training topic.
Procedures:
- This can be done face-to-face or with virtual groups.
- Develop a list of questions for a topic being covered in the class or training.
- Assign or allow members to select the questions that want to ask for their interviews.
- Students can either work alone or with a partner.
- Instruct students to email or text their interview questions to all other group members. If members are working in pairs, they need to decide which partner is going to contact which members, one partner contacting half the members and the other partner the other half. This will prevent duplication of efforts.
- Set up a group collaboration document such as a Google Presentation where members can post a summary of the responses they received.
Example:
In a face-to-face class students were presented with the following questions of which they were to choose the top interests:
- Do you believe that you can always trust your first impressions? Why or Why Not?
- You are successful in a project or task. Why are you successful?
- To what do you attribute your success? You fail a task or project. Why do you fail? To what do you attribute your failure?
- Describe a situation where you absolutely believed your perceptions were right and later found out they were wrong.
- Describe a situation that you believed your perceptions were right but those around you believed your perceptions were wrong. What did you do?
- Have you ever been or seen an accident where people had different accounts of what was seen? If yes, describe.
- In what way does one’s culture affects how he or she views world events?
- Students were paired up by preference for a question. They decided which other students they would interview - each student "taking" half of the other students in the class. They got their interviewees phone numbers.
- They texted their interview questions to their interviewees, and responded to the questions they received from the other class members.
- Each pair then prepared and reported a summary of their results on a Google Presentation that contained slides of each of the interview questions.