Guenter Hilmer - Phd Thesis - Glamorgan Dspace - University of ...

6 Interview evaluation
6 INTERVIEW EVALUATION
The interview evaluation that was designed and introduced in section 5.2.3 was
undertaken and the gained results will now be analysed and evaluated. Based on
the fact that the results of the interview evaluation should mirror the experience
and insights of educational and technical experts it was decided that the evaluation
of the results would be done in a qualitative way, i.e. the answers of the evaluation
participants would be recorded and transcribed. It has to be stated that all the
questions in this evaluation were open questions, i.e. the test participants could
answer them individually and express their opinions freely. After the interviews
the given answers were clustered, analysed (cf. chapter 6) and discussed (cf.
chapter 8).
Additionally, nine test participants were selected covering a broad range of expe-
rience in the educational or technical fields.
To achieve the best evaluation results possible, the five parts of the interview will
be analysed individually and the results of the analysis overall will be discussed
in chapter 8.
An overview of the specific results of the interviews can be found in Appendix
A.4. The transcripts of the evaluation interviews can be found on the appended
CD (cf. appendix A.7.2).
6.1 Analysis of the pre-test interview
The purpose of the pre-test interview was to determine the candidates’ abilities in
the teaching and computing areas. The aim was to build a relatively representative
test group covering the complete scale going from educational experts with almost
no computing knowledge to technical experts with almost no teaching experience.
Firstly, the interview will be analysed. Secondly, the information gathered by this
analysis will be summarised.
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