Reference & tools

Print references

There are numerous books available about interviews as a research and evaluation method. One of the volumes in The Survey Kit edited by Arlene Fink (2002) is titled How to Conduct In-Person Interviews for Surveys. Krueger and Casey (2000) wrote a useful text called Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research. Michael Quinn Patton's (1997) book, Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods is an excellent resource concerning how to analyze data from interviews and focus groups, especially when supplemented with Miles and Huberman (1994) volume, Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook.

Online references

A valuable online reference about interviewing can be found at:
http://ag.arizona.edu/fcr/fs/cyfar/Intervu5.htm.

An online introduction to interviewing can be found at: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mid/edr725/class/interviewing/.

Another online tutorial focused on interviewing is available at: http://www.roguecom.com/interview/.

A valuable online reference about focus groups can be found at:
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU19.html.

Online instruments, tools, guidelines, etc.

Guidelines for conducting structured interviews are available at: http://edresearch.org/pare/getvn.asp?v=5&n=12.

Additional interview tools can be found at Bill Trochim's Research Methods Knowledge Base at: http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/intrview.htm.

The “Basics of Conducting Focus Groups” website provides guidelines and tools: http://www.mapnp.org/library/evaluatn/focusgrp.htm.