I am trialling an intervention in some classrooms and I want to interview children to find out what the intervention was like from their perspective. Are there any examples of interview protocols that have been used in this scenario so that I can glean an idea about what types of questions would yield good responses?
First, you would have to get permission from their parents. Second, IRB, if you need them, will be hell to get through. How about the teachers or teacher's aides instead?
METHODOLOGY is poorly design. "Children" by their nature or lack of maturity and experience would not be able to engage in giving proper response or that responses would have to be guided or coached --- which makes the design non-objective and non-scientific. A better approach should be collecting data by observations.
CONSENT. Due to their lack of capacity to consent, parental consent is needed. Some parents may give consent, others may not. This lack of uniformity itself weakens the research in sampling issues. The sampling breaks down to no more than just convenience sampling.
INTERVIEWS of children will receive responses given by children in children's language level. How are you to going to code and analyze these interviews "objectively." At the end you will substitute your own judgment for that of the children. You will report what you believed they thought---which may not have been accurately reflect what they said.
Hi Brett Healey I think, you can either utilise individual interview or focus group to elicit information from the children, the methods which I found commonly used by other researchers who studied about children . Although innovative methods has become more popular these days, in my opinion 'old' methods are still relevant as children have been significantly under-researched therefore findings from a study with children by applying any methods will contribute to the literature. Please find attached an article that could help give you idea about your question.
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