Interview Questions

Today, based on your research, you will begin the second step of your project interview with your partner. The purpose of the interview, really, is to help your partner become aware of their thinking about the project. How does someone become aware of their own thinking? It takes self awareness and conscious reflection on one's actions, beliefs, knowledge, and ideas. We do this all the time when we make decisions that affect ourselves and others. We also tend to think more about what we say when we talk publicly or in front of others. Your interviews will be published on your blogs and selected ones will be published on the class blog.

We will conduct the interviews by sharing our questions through Google documents between the interviewer and the interviewee. Today, you will develop specific questions for your interviewee based on the following protocol for two rounds of questions. Your questions should cover the following areas:

Round 1

• Clarify the project goals and purposes. Why are they doing the project? What is important about it? How do they expect it to turn out in the end?
  
• Planning. What actions have they taken so far? What actions do they still need to take? What will be the evidence they produce? How will they collect data? What obstacles or roadblocks do they expect to encounter?
• Taking Action and experimenting. What are the different ways they have been working?
  
• Assessing and Gathering evidence. What evidence have they produced so far? What have they made? What date have they collected?
  
  
  Round 2
  
• Studying, reflecting, and evaluating. Have they met their goals? What have they learned so far doing the project? Have they learned new information? Have they learned something about themselves?
  
• Modification. Have they had to make any changes to their project or plan? Has their thinking about the subject changed? Would they do anything differently now?
• Revisiting goals and purposes. Does the project still make sense?
  

Write out four (4) questions based on the first four (4) areas of feedback and share the document with your partner. They will write their answers and save the document. Then based on their answers write out three (3) more questions for the last three areas of feedback and save the document. Your partner will answer the rest of the questions. You should be able to finish the interview today. You should try to address your partners project by modifying the questions that you feel are important for them.

For example: Adam, why are drawing cartoon characters? What do you want to show people? Well, you see, the thing is, I got mad skills as an artist and, you see, I'm trying to demonstrate my creativity. I really didn't know what else to do, but I'm trying to accomplish something I'm good at, yo.