Student interviews have found an increasingly important place within educational research as not only a way to validate assessments, concept inventories, and teaching interventions, but also to provide the framework from which instruments of these types are developed.  As student populations can vary from institution to institution, gathering interview data from multiple institutions can bolster the validity evidence gathered through interview methods.  However, time constraints and financial limitations can prevent members of a research team from traveling to collaborating institutions for the purposes of interview data collection, while training new researchers to conduct interviews introduces unwanted variability into experiment conditions.  In this poster, the members of one research team propose the use of remote interviews to collect student interview data across multiple institutions while demonstrating the efficacy of this method as an alternative to costly travel or time intensive training.  The comparison of results between in-person interviews and remote interviews conducted at collaborating universities will be presented along with a detailed description of the methods used to conduct these student interviews. <br/>

Remote interview methods

255th National Meeting (2018)

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