Experience of First-Time Qualitative Researcher in PhD Study: Piloting for Interview Guide
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Qualitative, Pilot Study, interview, corona, COVID-19Abstract
This methodological article presents the author experience with piloting of interview guide from the perception of a student researcher and from the perception of a research supervisor guiding the student researcher toward completing a PhD qualitative thesis investigating the experience of school age children during COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan from their perspectives. When investigating the lived experience of humans, semi-structured interview is recommended as an appropriate technique for data collection to understand their experiences. For novice researchers, it might be difficult to accomplish interview satisfactorily. Therefore, piloting of interview is a useful step in the qualitative research project because it may highpoints important faults and provides a chance to correct these faults before conducting the main study.
This paper discuss the importance of PS mainly in qualitative researches rather than quantitative. Then the article discusses the process of preparation for the PS including: ethical approval, preparation of interview guide, and the revision of interview guide by experts. After that, the article discusses the piloting of the interview guide, modifications made on the interview guide for the main study depending on the result of the pilot study. Professional reflection of the novice researcher on the experience with the pilot study of interview guide is discussed and the researchers recommend PSs for novice and expert researcher. Also, it is important to fuscous on the scientific role of researchers to report pilot studies because of limited attention in the literatures to publish pilot studies that enhance exchange of the researchers' experiences with pilot studies in qualitative researches
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