Qualitative Inquiry - Data Collection Steps and Interview Guide Worksheet

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Part One: Data Collection Steps

1. Data Collection Strategy and Sources of Data

• Describe the data collection strategy you will use:
• Detail who or what is the source of data:

1. Data Collection Process
2. Describe Your Recruitment Process: What are the inclusion criteria for your project? How do you plan to invite the participants to participate in the interview process for your project? Who will be communicating with the participants to invite them to participate? What permissions are needed to contact participants and how to you plan to secure the permissions? How will the invitation be transmitted? What information will be included in the invitation letter (consider a description of the study, what will be expected of participants, the length of time expected for participations, etc.). How will informed consent be secured? What are the key conditions of informed consent (consider anonymity, confidentiality and withdrawal procedures)?

1. Describe the Interview Setting and Materials: What is the location for the interview? Who will be present? What, if any materials will be provided (informed consent, recording devices, handouts, etc.).
2. Describe Your Interview Process: Detail how you will introduce the interview process to the participant and remind the participant of key aspects of the interview process including the purpose of the project, the importance of the information to be provided by the participant, how (if at all) the interview transcript and project findings will be shared with the participants, expected length of the interview that is about to occur, and the format and process for the interview.
3. Describe What Your Participants Will Do: Detail the demographics to be collected and the mechanism for collecting demographic information. List your Interview Questions: Illustrate how your interview questions map back to your project questions. For each interview question, detail, follow-up probing questions to utilized if there is a need to add breadth or depth to participant responses. Begin, by detailing the demographic information you will collect from participants and how you will collect the information (survey or interview). Based upon the guide, you should be able to explain and justify the sufficiency of data to be collected to enable you to answer your project questions. Estimated interview length should be 30 to 45 minutes. Detail how you will close out the interview. Complete the Interview Guide table:

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Part Two: Interview Guide

	Demographic Information and Introduction: Describe the demographic information you will collect from participants, the value of this information, and the method for collecting the information.
Project Questions (what you seek to understand): List each of the Project Questions separately:	Interview Questions* (what you will ask to gain the understanding you seek): Map and detail each of the primary interview back to the project question:	Justification:Explain how the literature helped to inform the creation of the interview question. Identify the concept from your Applied Framework (Section 2.3.2) which guided the creation of the interview question.	Probing Questions**: For each interview question, what follow-up questions might you ask to generate additional information?
PQ1:	IQ1.1
	IQ1.2
	IQ1.3 : IQ1.n
PQ2:	IQ2.1
	IQ2.2
	IQ2.3
	IQ2.3 : IQ2.n
	Closing out the Interview: Enter your script here to close out the interview inclusive of asking the participant if there is additional information to share, questions and comments about the interview, follow-up for transcript review (if applicable), and how the participant may get a final copy of the project (if applicable), along with a thank you for their efforts and contributions.

* Avoid closed-ended (yes/no) questions.

*Examples of Probing Questions:

• "Can you tell me more about ....."
• Can you share an example of .......?
• Why is ......... important?
• Can you think of another example of......?

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