Researchers' Opinions on the Process of Collecting Data through Interviews

The study aims to reveal the thoughts of the researchers about the data collection process in the studies whose data were provided by the participants' views. The case study approach, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the study. The study group of the research consists of a total of 12 experienced researchers, 9 women, and 3 men, working in the faculty of education of a state university, who have completed their doctorate. An interview form prepared by the researchers was used as a data collection tool in the study. In the interview form, only one open-ended question was included to reveal the thoughts of the researchers about the process of collecting data with the participants' views in qualitative research. The descriptive analysis method was used to organize the data obtained. In order of importance, the participants wrote their thoughts about the questions used in qualitative research, data recording, what to do before data collection, the time and place of the interviews, the motivation of the participants, and the behavior of the researcher during the interview. [This paper is published in: Ali Ersoy, Sakir Cinkir (Eds.), "International Education Congress Conference Proceeding" (pp. 1394-1398), Dicle University, 2024.]