Colegio de San Juan de Letran Calamba

Senior High School Department

PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1
Fourth Quarter

ASSESSMENT TASK 2
General Instruction(s):

• Read the specific instructions in each item carefully.

• Submit your answers in word docs following this format (Calibri/Arial, 8.5x11, margins 1 all side, 1.5 line spacing,
10 pts)
• Use the document name SURNAME_PRARE1(ASSESSMENT_TASK2)
• In the absence of needed material to create a word document, submit your answers in any of the following format
(word document, pdf, handwritten (send a photo), chat message, text message, or thru email). Use the format that
is most accessible for you.
A. Analyzing Interview Sample: Read the sample interview. Make an analysis by answering the guide
questions provided. Answers in each item must be in paragraph form. Do not copy the questions anymore,
just answer spontaneously. Ideally, answers come in 1 paragraph for each question. In the event of multiple
paragraphs for specific question, use transitional devices to establish connection.
Read through this extract from an interview that took place in 2008.

Interviewer: Can you tell me about your life history from childhood to date; and all that you can remember about yourself? You may
not know about your infancy but at least your parent or somebody must have talked about it so just tell me what you know or
remember.
Respondent: Well, my names are XX and I’m 29 years old; I’ve been working as a dressmaker here for the last 13 years.

Interviewer: Where were you born from?

Respondent: I was born in xx in xx District.

Interviewer: Tell me about your parents.

Respondent: My parents were a wedded couple from a Catholic church. While my father was a teacher and mother was a house
wife.

Interviewer: Is your father still teaching now?

Respondent: My father died in 1987 when I was in primary school. He was a teacher by profession; but later on, in 1982 he changed
to second-hand clothes business. He used to go to xx and purchase a big bag of second hand clothes and then sell them in the
market. My mother died in 2005 after suffering two months fever.

Interviewer: How many of you were you born into your family?
Respondent: We were born six of us with mother.

Interviewer: Then what of father?

Respondent: We were born ten of us with father; that is including my four step siblings.

Interviewer: Then what is your position in the birth order?

Respondent: I’m the second to last born to both father and mother; but my twin sister died while she was in primary school. She
collapsed while standing in the school assembly. She fell down and later after two days she died.

Interviewer: When was that?

Respondent: It was around 19… ah, I don’t remember!

Interviewer: So, you remained seven or six?

Respondent: We are now six children. There is a brother who died in 2004; and another one died in 2006.

Interviewer: Tell me about your schooling.

Respondent: I went to school at xx school up to class two; from there, father transferred me to xx primary school up to class seven
then to xx up to senior class one and I stopped there.

Interviewer: Why did you stop there then?

Respondent: I dropped out of school because of pregnancy.
Almanza l Amparado l Javier l Panday
 Colegio de San Juan de Letran Calamba
Senior High School Department

PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1
Fourth Quarter

Guide Questions
1. What is the topic of this interview?
2. How does the interviewer introduce the topic and maintain the focus on that topic?
3. Are there differences between this interview and a conversation? If yes, note down the differences.

A. Interviews
o We would like you to conduct two short interviews for this assessment task.
o Ask two relatives (whoever is with you during this Enhanced Community Quarantine) if they can spend ten
minutes with you discussing their experiences during this Enhanced Community Quarantine due to COVID-
19.
o With the first relative (whoever is with you during this Enhanced Community Quarantine) conduct an
unstructured interview. Ask him/her a single question and then see what s/he says. Encourage him/her to
carry on talking, but don’t ask any questions that direct the interview. Let him/her lead.
o The second interview is to be semi-structured. First prepare a guide to the topics you want to cover and
think through the way you will phrase the questions, then carry out the interview.
o For both interviews write up some notes on what was said. Compare your notes and reflect on how easy/
difficult it was for you to take notes.
o Please fill in the table below.
o Then answer the following questions. Write your answer after the table:
o What are the similarities and differences of the two interviews in terms of:
1. Manner of questioning
2. Manner of interviewees’ response
3. Taking of notes
o Is it difficult or easy to take note the answers of interviewee? What are your realizations? Narrate
your experience.

RUBRICS FOR Analyzing Interview Sample (30 PTS) RUBRICS FOR INTERVIEWS (30 PTS)

Points Criteria Description Points Criteria Description

• Prepares and asks relevant

• Able to provide all questions that are aptly informed
5 Content 5 Questions
details as asked by the context and the subject’s
initial query

• Uses clear words • Demonstrate s careful listening by

Listening Skills /
which allow easy interjecting effective follow up
Clarity and Follow-up
10 understanding 10 Questions (Based questions to significant responses.
Organization • Able to organize Effectively elicits relevant
on the interview
elaboration of answers. (Based on
thoughts well notes)
the interview notes)
• You provide a detailed summary
of the interview with a clear
indication of the questions asked
• Has complete and and answers received (Interview
Notes)
comprehensive Summary &
5 Completeness 15
answers to all the Conclusion
• You identify main points and
questions. convey a clear sense of what you
learned in the interview and how
you might apply it in the future
(Narration of Experience)

Almanza l Amparado l Javier l Panday

 Colegio de San Juan de Letran Calamba
Senior High School Department

PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1
Fourth Quarter

UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW STRUCTURED INTERVIEW

Name:
Age:
Relationship to you:
(1) INTERVIEW QUESTION INTERVIEW GUIDE:
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(Write one (1) question to be asked to your (there should be at least 5 questions in the
interviewee) interview guide)
INTERVIEW NOTES: INTERVIEW NOTES:

(Write your interviewee’s answer here.) (Write your interviewee’s answer here.)

Almanza l Amparado l Javier l Panday