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No, You're Not Entitled to an Answer...and other classic interview blunders

Interviewing for data collection is deceptively simple. This blog explores 6 interview blunders and tips for how to avoid making mistakes.

Program Evaluation

10 min read

Don't Interview In Sandals...and other tips to get into interviewer character

In qualitative interviewing, the data collection tool is the interviewer, not the guide. To get the vibe right, I get into character.

Program Evaluation

12 min read

Evaluation Interviewing... and the art, awkward, and absurdity of asking questions

ow on earth do you ask another person a question? After about 500 interviews, here is how we decide when interviews are the right evaluation tool, what they really cost in time, and the beliefs that shape how we ask.

Program Evaluation

6 min read

An Interview Is Not a Sandwich...and other reflections on qualitative interview structures

An interview is not a sandwich. But, it might be a corndog, a burger, or a charcuterie board. Here is how to choose between structured, semi-structured, and unstructured interviews, and how to run each one well.

Program Evaluation

8 min read

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No, You're Not Entitled to an Answer...and other classic interview blunders

Don't Interview In Sandals...and other tips to get into interviewer character

Evaluation Interviewing... and the art, awkward, and absurdity of asking questions

An Interview Is Not a Sandwich...and other reflections on qualitative interview structures

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