structured interviews

• what is a structured interview

  pre set pre structured

  provides mostly quantitive data

  objective
• 2 prac strengths

  quick to complete-time and money

  useful in finding factual data-subject matter
• 2 ethical strengths

  requires informed consent

  lack of probing and leading questions-confidentiality and privacy
• 2 theoretical strengths

  high in reliability as you can repeat-reliability

  as you can repeat, the representativeness is high-representativeness
• 2 practical negatives

  lacks qualitative data so no depth-subject matter

  because it only creates quantitative data, some research may not like it-requirements of funding bodies
• 2 ethical negatives

  none
• 2 theoretical negatives

  still a chance of interview bias-validity

  interpretivists would not like it-methodological perspective