Conducting Qualitative Studies with Children and
                    Adolescents

Deatrick, Janet A.; Faux, Sandra A.

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“…Other researchers have also adopted such notion as evident in the designs of their studies (e.g. Bearison, 1991;Deatrick & Faux, 1989;Thompson Jr & Gustafson, 1996). In addition, researchers such as Einarsdóttir (2005), Sheridan and Samuelsson (2001), Warming (2005), and Wiltz and Klein (2001) have used diverse methods in gathering data that revealed children are reliable informants and participants in qualitative studies.…”

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Scenario-Based Interview: An Alternative Approach to Interviewing Children?

Jaidin¹

2018

Pac Early Child Educ Res Assoc

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Data in qualitative research are mainly derived through observations, document analysis, and interviews. The interview process in qualitative studies, however, can become challenging and complex when a group of children is involved as participants. This paper examines the methodological challenges faced by researchers when interviewing children and makes a case for the use of scenario-based interviews to obtain quality data from children in phenomenographic research.The discussion is based on a phenomenographic study that aimed at exploring and understanding children's experiences of learning in government primary schools in Brunei Darussalam. The processes that led to the development of two scenarios in a series of phenomenographic interviews are discussed in this paper. While there are limitations in the use of scenario-based interviews with children in phenomenographic research, it has the potential to address methodological concerns and, more importantly, to elicit quality data. Finally, the scenario-based interview offers an alternative to the in-depth interviews typically used in phenomenographic research. (2002) highlighted that pheomenographic data are typically collected through a series of deep and open-ended interviews, which are analysed through an iterative process of reading and rereading transcripts to produce an outcome space. However, based on the researcher's experience, attempting to elicit deep and rich data from children, especially in a context where education is highly-examination-oriented, traditional, and didactic, can be very challenging. This paper puts forth an alternative approach to interviewing children, using a scenario-based interview approach that is based on a phenomenographic study conducted with a group of eight to eleven years old children in Brunei Darussalam (henceforth called Brunei). In doing so, a brief background of Brunei and its education system is now presented to set the context for further discussions on the study. KeywordsThe study took place in Brunei, a small country located on the northwest coast of Borneo In these countries, including Brunei, children are tested regularly with examinations throughout their schooling years (Jaidin, 2009;Yeo & Clarke, 2006). In Brunei, the children's performances in examinations are significant indicators of school success (Jaidin, 2009;Scott & Fisher, 2002). This adds more pressure on teachers to complete a comprehensive syllabus and produce good results in examinations. Accordingly, teachers in Brunei choose to use traditional teaching methods that result in children being mainly passive in class where they rarely ask questions during lessons (Asmah, 2001;Attwood & Bray, 1989;Charleston, 1998;Scott & Fisher, 2002;Zaitun, 1997). The StudyThe main aim of the study was to provide a better understanding of the ways in which children experience learning in government schools in Brunei. The study adopted a In recent years, more phenomenographic studies have focused on highlighting children's views, opinions, and experience...

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“…Other researchers have also adopted such notion as evident in the designs of their studies (e.g. Bearison, 1991;Deatrick & Faux, 1989;Thompson Jr & Gustafson, 1996). In addition, researchers such as Einarsdóttir (2005) The children were reticent in responding to the questions and gave limited information about their learning experiences (Jaidin, 2009).…”

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Scenario-Based Interview: An Alternative Approach to Interviewing Children?

Jaidin¹

2018

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“…6 Fundamental con cerns, particularly in younger children, relate to ethical issues such as vulner ability, consent and confi dentiality. 9,10 There are also concerns about whether children possess the appropriate cogni tive, linguistic and social skills to pro vide adult interviewers with reliable and valid interview data.…”

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“…Instead, an adult's (usually the moth er's) opinion of the phenomenon being studied has often been sought. 6 This is primarily because of the tendency to accredit adults with greater knowledge and experience than children, even in matters that affect children directly. 7 Obviously, there are areas where a par ent is better able to provide informa tion about their child than the child is, for example in studies that require a detailed knowledge of early childhood illnesses or dental treatment.…”

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“…4,5 However, while increasing, qualita tive research with children per se is still relatively rare, primarily because there are a variety of methodological, pragmatic, cognitive and ethical issues associated with interviewing minors. 6,7 Consequently, children's perspectives that could be used to improve under standing and potentially infl uence pol icy, practice and future research within dentistry, are not being explored to their fullest potential. Furthermore, the pau city of existing empirical research with children also limits the scope and guid ance for future research studies.…”

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1999

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The focus in health-related research on children has shifted from seeking information about children to seeking information directly from them. Children, even as young as three years old, can give graphic descriptions and have excellent recall of experiences related to adverse events, such as illness and hospitalization. Children use scripts as the primary means of anticipating, comprehending, and re-creating real-life experience. The content, timing, number, and structure of interviews will influence the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of children's recall of events. Although at times conflicting, the findings from recent scholarship on children's narrative competence will assist researchers to select the interviewing strategies most likely to yield faithful representations of experience.

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Conducting Qualitative Studies with Children and Adolescents

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Scenario-Based Interview: An Alternative Approach to Interviewing Children?

Scenario-Based Interview: An Alternative Approach to Interviewing Children?

Conducting qualitative interviews with school children in dental research

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