The group administered interactive questionnaire: An alternative to individual interviews

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Group Administered Interactive Questionnaire (GAIQ) as a time-efficient alternative to individual interviews for understanding participants' perspectives, with discussion on its advantages and limitations.

Contribution

The paper presents the GAIQ method and compares it to traditional interviews, highlighting its potential benefits for qualitative data collection.

Findings

GAIQ reduces time and resource requirements compared to interviews.

GAIQ provides comparable insights into participants' reasoning.

The paper discusses contexts where GAIQ is most effective.

Abstract

Individual interviews are often considered to be the gold standard for researchers to understand how people think about phenomena. However, conducting and analyzing interviews is very time consuming. This paper presents the Group Administered Interactive Questionnaire (GAIQ) as an alternative to individual interviews and discusses the pros and cons of each data collection method. Use of GAIQ will be discussed in the context of a study that seeks to understand teaching assistants' reasons for the design of problem solutions for introductory physics.