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The main focus of our interview today is to understand more about why and how you use scholarly resources in preparing and conducting your courses. Scholarly resources can mean anything you use for lectures, assignments, research or other course activities; not just materials you get from the library. We consider you the expert at your work so there are no wrong answers to any of our questions. While you answer questions or guide us through tasks, please focus on the details of how you usually do your work. It may help to think about the last time you performed the task and explain it to us as if we are going to need to perform the task soon. Please feel free to be honest and critical even if the way your work actually gets done is not the way it should be done - again, everything you tell us is strictly confidential. Any questions before we begin? |
Interview Questions
The interview questions can be broken down into the following sections:
- Warm-up: getting to know the instructor a little bit better and giving them some simple questions to get them feeling confident.
- General Questions: learning a little bit more about the goals, attitudes and activities of the instructor with more open-ended questions.
- Observation: focusing in on a specific activity and having the instructor think aloud, sharing details of why and how they perform tasks that comprise an activity.
- Follow-up: asking questions to clarify missing, ambiguous or confusing information from observation.
Warm-up
- How long have you been at <instructor's institution>?
- What kinds of courses do you teach?
- Can you tell us more about the course you are currently most involved with? (If there is no definitive course: please tell us about a course you are currently teaching or, if you are not currently teaching, a course you most recently taught.)
- How many students are there?
- Are there multiple sections?
- Do you work with other instructors (including students) to prepare for the course?
- What do you do together?
- Do you work with other instructors (including students) to conduct the course?
- What do you do together?
- Can you tell us more about the course you are currently most involved with? (If there is no definitive course: please tell us about a course you are currently teaching or, if you are not currently teaching, a course you most recently taught.)
General Questions
- What do you enjoy most about your job as an instructor?
- Why?
- What activities do you always tackle first?
- What do you enjoy least about your job as an instructor?
- Why?
- What activities currently waste your time?
- Please think about the course you are currently most involved with (the same course as above). Can you give us an overview of how you prepared for this course?
- In which activities (i.e. preparing lectures, creating assignments, etc.) do you make use of scholarly resources (i.e. books, journal articles, images, video, etc.)?
- What are the scholarly resources you make use of in different activities?
- What made you choose the scholarly resources you did?
- In which activities (i.e. preparing lectures, creating assignments, etc.) do you make use of scholarly resources (i.e. books, journal articles, images, video, etc.)?
- What are the regular activities you participate in to conduct this course?
- Do you make use of scholarly resources in any of these activities?
- How do these scholarly resources add value to the activity they are a part of, if at all?
- Do you make use of scholarly resources in any of these activities?
Observation
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