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Face to face Interview Questions
Ethno_all
- Remember to make sure your interviewee is over 18!
1. Has anyone influenced (pressured or encouraged) you to go to school?
1a. How does your family feel about your academic achievement?
2. What is your major reason for going to college?
2a. If I asked you to define ‘academic success,’ what would that mean to you?
2b. On a scale of 1 to 5 (5 as highest) how important is your academic success to you?
2c. If I asked you to define ‘social network,’ what would that mean to you?
2d. On a scale of 1 to 5 (5 as highest) how important is your social network as a reason you stay in school?
2e. On a scale of 1 to 5 (5 as most amount of time) do you spend time on De Anza's campus in the company of friends?
2f.Everyone skips class sometimes. Why do you?
3. Did you choose a community college over a university for financial reasons?
3a. If you applied for financial aid, were you awarded any?
3b. If you did not apply for financial aid, why not?
3c. How do you pay for school at De Anza?
3d. If you work, how many hours a week?
4. Do you feel like you can go to your professors for help?
4a. What qualities in a professor make you feel like you can talk to them?
4b. Do you feel like your professors want you to succeed?
5. Have you ever left a course without completing it or failed to attend a class at
all due to either an emotional or academic reason??
5a. If so, about how many times since Jan 2005?
5b. For what reason?
5c. Have you ever left DeAnza after completing a quarter? If so why?
5d. Why did you return?
6. Do you like studying in groups? Why? Why not?
7. While taking classes, do you spend time in social activities as well as academic ones?
7a. If so, which activities?
7b. Given a packed schedule where you have to pick between extra hours at work or take an extra class at school, which would you would pick?
8. Do you attend De Anza because your friends do?
8a. If so, how many of these friends influenced your decision to attend De Anza?
8b. How does this affect your performance in the class?
8c. Do you feel having friends at the college helps you enjoy learning more?
8d. Do you have friends that encourage you to skip class?
8e. Do you feel some of your friends don't understand why you are attending college?
8f. Have you ever not taken a class because none of your friends wanted to take the class with you?
9. Have you ever been motivated to do better in class to impress a crush?
9a. Do you look for dating opportunities while at De Anza?
9b. Have you ever taken any classes with a romantic partner?
9c. If so, how does this affect your performance in the class?
9d. What sort of influence does dating have on your academic performance?
9e. Does spending time with your significant other prevent you from getting schoolwork done?
10. Do you attend college as a way to escape your current social networks?
10a. Do you attend college as a way to form new social networks?
11. What kind of hobbies outside of school do you have?
11a What sort of programs do you think De Anza is currently lacking?
11b. Are there services you partake of at De Anza that you would like to see expanded or improved? How?
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