Modified Personal Interviews

A Data Quality Control Program for Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews

Researchers strive to optimize data quality in order to ensure that study findings are valid and reliable. In this paper, we describe a data quality control program designed to maximize quality of survey data collected using computer-assisted personal interviews. The quality control program comprised three phases: (1) software development, (2) an interviewer quality control protocol, and (3) a ...

Automating a Modified Personal Software Process

Personal Software Process (PSP) is a defined software development framework that includes defined operations, measurement and analysis techniques to assist software engineers to understand and build their own skills in order to improve their own personal performance. Even though several published studies have suggested that adopting PSP results in improved size and time estimation, and improved...

Falling silent, lost for words ... Tracing personal involvement in interviews with Dutch war veterans

In sources used in oral history research (such as interviews with eye witnesses), passages where the degree of personal emotional involvement is found to be high can be of particular interest, as these may give insight into how historical events were experienced, and what moral dilemmas and psychological or religious struggles were encountered. In a pilot study involving a large corpus of inter...

Do data obtained from admissions interviews and resident evaluations predict later personal and practice problems?

OBJECTIVE The authors assessed whether current methods of evaluating residency applicants and residents identify psychiatrists who later develop evidence of impairment. METHOD Residency admissions and performance data for all physicians who were enrolled in a psychiatry residency between 1965 and 1994 and who were referred to an impaired physician program up to 35 years later were matched for...

Unstructured Interviews