Sunday 26 April 2015

Writing interview questions

I meant to post this a while ago, but here are some suggestions from a colleague on how to improve some questions to make them more ethical and therefore better tools for data collection in interviews:

My questions are in black and his suggested changes are in red -

Would you say performing arts has a valid place within an SEN setting?  If so, why?
How do you feel about the performing arts in an SEN setting?

Can you think of an instance where a child has responded particularly positively in SEN setting? Can you think of an instance where a child has responded particularly negatively in SEN setting?
Make these two separate questions

Would you say groups of children respond differently to performing arts depending on their SEN (i.e. Do autistic children have a more positive response than downs syndrome children or is it always a completely individual result?
(maybe don't give an example unless you feel it is essential, otherwise you may already unwittingly have got them thinking about downs and autism as opposed to the whole range).

What skills, if any, does performing arts give SEN children?
What do you believe the performing arts offers pupils with SEN? Unless you specifically want the participant to talk about 'skills' (eg ability to use voice to represent a character) as opposed to qualities such as confidence/self esteem

Do you have any further information on the performing arts and SEN children that I could use for further research purposes?

Is there anything else you want to add? (might be worth including this as they may give you a pearls of wisdom that otherwise might have been lost!!)

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