@article{Kim_2022, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Peer-interviewing as methods practice and to teach interview best practices}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/peer-interviewing-as-methods-practice}, abstractNote={<p>Research projects are a common type of assignment in sociology courses. Often, however, students are tasked to collect and analyze data without much preparation for these tasks. In this article, I propose an interview practice exercise that involves group work in pairs and role-play to help students that have to submit an interview-based research paper as their final project to become comfortable and competent with interviewing for academic research. This in-class activity draws from the scholarship on practice and meta-cognition by building a method of taking several rounds or iterations that build up from the previous round until it almost completely replicates an interview setting encountered by qualitative researchers. It is also predicated on student-centred learning or active learning, and its core principle that students learn best from each other and when engaged in hands-on activities. I implemented this technique as part of my TA sections for an Introduction to Sociology course, but it is equally applicable in classroom settings with a smaller class size, whether at the undergraduate or graduate level, and in any disciplines that use interviewing as a qualitative research method.</p>}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Kim, Min Ji}, year={2022}, month={Mar.} }