Assignment 4
See attachment for instructions, example, template, and rubric.
EDUC
Interview Transcription Assignment Instructions
Overview
Interviewing participants is an important data collection method for applied research. Interviewing techniques need to be practiced and developed to help you prepare for the actual interview data collection for your research. Additionally, transcribing interviews is an important part of data analysis, as this is how codes and themes develop. For this assignment, you will interview one participant and transcribe the interview.
Instructions
You will conduct an interview and transcribe the interview for this assignment. For the Interview Questions Assignment, you wrote three open-ended interview questions to help you solve the central research question for your study. You will use those three interview questions for this assignment. Choose someone to interview (preferably someone in an educational setting and relevant to your study). Then, complete the Interview Transcription Template as noted below.
Include the following guidelines for this assignment:
· Use the Interview Transcription Template for this assignment.
· Complete the General Information Questions section with the participant’s name, the date and time of the interview, the site of the study, and the method (face-to-face interview, Teams, WebEx, Skype, phone, etc.).
· Complete the Participant Demographics section, including the participant’s current age, gender, race/ethnicity, and occupation.
· Complete the Interview Questions section by writing the three open-ended interview questions from the Interview Questions Assignment (incorporating feedback from your professor).
· You must actually conduct this interview with the participant named on the template.
· You may record the interview using a smart phone or other recording device. Then, you will transcribe the interview into the Interview Questions section of the template.
· Each interview question should produce more than 100-word answers. If an answer is given that is less than 100 words, you should ask a follow up question to obtain a more detailed answer.
· See the example provided.
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IMPROVING OEA FOR SCIENCE TEST SCORES
Recommendations for Improving Students’ Test Scores on the Ohio Educational Assessment for Science at Hampton High School
Liberty Student
School of Education, Liberty University
In partial fulfillment of EDUC
Interview Transcription Example
General Information Questions
Participant’s Name
Mrs. Marion
Date/Time
November 14, 2021, 2:00 PM
Site
Liberty High School
Method
Participant Demographics
Current Age
39
Gender
Female
Race/Ethnicity
Caucasian, Non-Hispanic
Occupation
Interview Questions
Interviewer: What skills are assessed on the Ohio Educational Assessment for Science?
Interviewee: Well. I haven’t seen the OEA in great detail, but I would assume that they would assess skills like data analysis and interpretation of data and things like that– things you would expect in science. [note: look of concern on interviewees face]. Honestly, I am not exactly sure, which is kind of embarrassing, um, yeah. I wonder if the other science teachers know this information, like specifically which science skills are actually tested on the OEA. Otherwise, I suppose we are just guessing at which skills the students need to some degree. We just teach what is in the textbook. This is probably not the best approach.
Interviewer: How are these skills incorporated throughout the curricula?
Interviewee: Well, in the past, students have been learning these skills through the learning goals associated with certain science practices, so those are kind of interwoven in our learning goals. And we’ve done a little separation of that to make assessment of content a little bit easier. The scientific practices have to be part of the actual assessment, especially for the lower-level kids, but I think most of the teachers in the department when we hire them, we try to hire teachers that really believe in doing science. And I think we’ve been pretty successful with that. We tried to develop a scope and sequence for science, but it never really came to fruition. This is probably part of the reason that students are not doing well on the OEA. They are not being taught all of the content that is actually tested.
Continue with transcribing the interview…
EDUC
Interview Transcription Template
General Information Questions
Participant’s Name
Date/Time
Site
Method
Participant Demographics
Current Age
Gender
Race/Ethnicity
Occupation
Interview Questions
Interviewer:
Interviewee:
Interviewer:
Interviewee:
Interviewer:
Interviewee:
EDUC
Interview Transcription Grading Rubric
Criteria
Levels of Achievement
Content 80%
Advanced
Proficient
Developing
Not Present
Quality of Information
32 to 35 points
Interview transcription template is used. General Information Questions and Demographic Questions were completely filled in. The three interview questions from Module 4 are included and answered.
29 to 31 points
Interview transcription template is used. General Information Questions and Demographic Questions were mostly filled in. Two interview questions from Module 4 are included and mostly answered.
1 to 28 points
Interview transcription template is not used. General Information Questions and Demographic Questions were not completely filled in. The three interview questions from Module 4 are missing and not answered.
0 points
Not present
Content
41 to 45 points
Three open-ended interview question that are related to the topic are included and are thoroughly answered. Each transcription provided is more than 100 words.
38 to 40 points
Two open-ended interview questions that are related to the topic are included and are mostly answered. Two transcriptions are more than 100 words.
1 to 37 points
Less than two open-ended interview question that are related to the topic are included and are not specifically answered. Less than two transcriptions are more than 100 words.
0 points
Not present
Structure 20%
Advanced
Proficient
Developing
Not Present
Mechanics & Format
18 to 20 points
Minimal or no grammatical, spelling, and/or punctuation errors are present, and the document is written in current APA format. Contains a title page. Template is accurately completed.
17 points
A few grammatical, spelling, and/or punctuation errors are present, and/or errors in current APA format are found. Title page contains an error(s). Template was somewhat followed.
1 to 16 points
Many grammatical, spelling, and/or punctuation errors are present, and/or errors in current APA format are found. Missing title page. Template not used.
0 points
Not present