Undergraduate Research Project
Retrospective Interview Protocol

Introductions

Background : interested in what students really do when they write their papers

Establish Rapport

Question : How many research papers did you write last semester? (write on drawing paper)

Explain : We’ll be talking about one paper: the one you wrote for [preselected course]. I’d like you to draw a picture of the writing of this paper while we talk.

Question : How did you receive the assignment? Draw or note yourself receiving the assignment right in the center of the paper.

Question : What was the very first thing you did?

Question : What was the next thing you did?

[Continue with this question until the paper is handed in]

Question : How did you do on this paper? What was it that helped you do as well as you did? What would have helped you do better?

Question : The next time you do a paper, will you try to do anything different?

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Retrospective Interview Protocol

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