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Qualitative Research Interviewing: Typology of Graduate Students' Interview Questions

Philippine Social Science Journal (PSSJ) , 2021

This paper is a corpus linguistics research that examined the typology of questions asked by graduate students who did papers that solely followed qualitative research interviewing as their data collection technique. Corpus linguistics is a methodological approach employed to analyze patterns of language use in naturally occurring texts. The paper investigated the breadth and structure of the interview questions and the unproductive questions found in the corpus. The corpus consisted of 7,516 interview questions examined following the structure-breadth-function typology of questions as a framework. The corpus was analyzed by identifying the patterns of the interview questions for these to be properly typologized. Results revealed that Wh-questions (5,365 of the 7,516 questions or 71.381%) were the most frequently asked interview questions, followed by the yes-no questions (1,455 or 19.359%). Tell-Explain-Describe or TED questions (6 or 0.106%) had the least frequency of occurrence. Additionally, closed-ended questions (3,977 or 52.914%) were more prevalent than open-ended questions (3,539 or 47.086%). While a total of 802 prefaced questions were identified with so-prefaced questions as the most pervasive (446 or 56.611%). Finally, the study results showed that leading and multiple questions constituted the unproductive interview questions, the latter being the most preponderant with 700 or 55.556% of the 1,260 unproductive questions. The subcategorizations yes-no and wh-leading questions; and multiple yes-no, multiple yes-no-wh-, and multiple wh-(serial and single) questions are nowhere to be found in the available literature on interview questions, thus adding to the value of the present study. The quality of qualitative research interviewing is facilitated by the typology of questions interviewers asked based on the structure and breadth of the questions. Generally, the whopen-ended type is the more appropriate one in qualitative research interviewing.

Reviews on the Job Interview Approaches in Malaysia Context

Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH), 2022

The job interview has become a popular topic for research among scholars and is a common format employed by any stake holders, recruitment agencies, companies and institutions. It is also called an assessment to select a suitable candidate for hiring. A common instrument used for the job interview is standard interview questions or semi-structured interview questions internally or locally with the set of common objective. There were several studies conducted by scholars on employment interviews. It was found that three common areas of interest are explored in this paper: (1) comprehending what standardised interviews envisage, (2) investigating how interview concepts can be evaluated, and (3) categorise the candidate and interview components that may impact the interview procedure. It was further found that there are also three equally important factors that require moderate research focus to be incorporated: (1) constructing a general standard and value for the interview format or standard interview questions for fresh graduates and behavioural interview questions for senior positions, (2) focus on the best attributes or personal traits, and (3) reliable explanations, classification and quantification of candidate characteristics and employability skills. It is hope that these approaches can be utilized and contributes in the field of job interviews, especially in Malaysia context which prepare the young generations.

Eight challenges for interview researchers

The open-ended interview is the preeminent data generation technique in methodological traditions as disparate as ethnography, phenomenology (in its different forms), psychoanalysis, narrative psychology, grounded theory, and (much) discourse analysis. Our aim in this chapter is to make the case that interviewing has been too easy, too obvious, too little studied, and too open to providing a convenient launch pad for poor research. We will argue that interview research will be made better if it faces up to a series of eight challenges that arise in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of qualitative interviews. Some research studies already face up to some of these challenges; few studies face up to all of them. We will make our case strongly and bluntly with the aim of provoking debate where not enough has taken place. These challenges are overlapping, but we have separated them in the way we have for clarity. It is important to emphasize that our aim is not to criticize interviews but to make them better.