TY - GEN
T1 - Interview guide development for studying information systems processes
T2 - IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2010
AU - Martins, Jorge Tiago
AU - Nunes, Miguel Baptista
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper applies a reflexive lens to qualitative IS research focusing on the process of data collection trough interviews, demonstrating the importance and impact of interview guide development on the outcomes of data generation, emergence and interpretation, in the framework of a Grounded Theory-based enquiry. It accounts for the researchers' concerns in tailoring an effective interview guide for an interpretive study of e-learning appropriation by Portuguese Faculty, revealing the non-linear, iterative nature of the task, which entails reflection and revision. In the course of the study, aimed at understanding and ascertaining faculty's relevant e-learning beliefs and related university-wide processes and factors influencing attitude and individual decision-making, it became apparent how the interview guide should provide the prompts to channel and accommodate emerging themes, extractable from informants' focused responses. The rationale and approach to interview guide development are outlined and discussed alongside with examples from the research itself to assist qualitative research students and researchers by offering practitioner reflexivity on integral aspects of the interview process.
AB - This paper applies a reflexive lens to qualitative IS research focusing on the process of data collection trough interviews, demonstrating the importance and impact of interview guide development on the outcomes of data generation, emergence and interpretation, in the framework of a Grounded Theory-based enquiry. It accounts for the researchers' concerns in tailoring an effective interview guide for an interpretive study of e-learning appropriation by Portuguese Faculty, revealing the non-linear, iterative nature of the task, which entails reflection and revision. In the course of the study, aimed at understanding and ascertaining faculty's relevant e-learning beliefs and related university-wide processes and factors influencing attitude and individual decision-making, it became apparent how the interview guide should provide the prompts to channel and accommodate emerging themes, extractable from informants' focused responses. The rationale and approach to interview guide development are outlined and discussed alongside with examples from the research itself to assist qualitative research students and researchers by offering practitioner reflexivity on integral aspects of the interview process.
KW - E-learning
KW - Grounded Theory
KW - Interview guide development
KW - Qualitative research interviewing
KW - Reflexivity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860711838&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84860711838
SN - 9789728939090
T3 - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2010
SP - 342
EP - 349
BT - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2010
Y2 - 18 March 2010 through 20 March 2010
ER -