Initial Interview Questions
- What usually leads you to want to learn something new? strategic questions
- When you decide to learn something new, what process do you use? How do you usually feel during the process? strategic questions
- When you write an essay, what process do you use? How do you usually feel during the process? strategic questions
- How many credit hours have you taken? How many academic credit hours? How many technical credit hours?
- Where have you taken these credit hours?
- What type of experiences have you had in your courses? afffective questions
- What other type of activities are you involved in besides school?
- Describe what sorts of interactions you regularly have in your classes— with the teacher, other students, lab assistants, etc. What are the classes like? How does the teacher communicate the course outcomes and objectives?
- What sorts of difficulties do you have when working on achieving course objectives? What has been done to avoid these?
- What type of course activities do you find easiest to complete? Why?
- What type of job do you have? What are your duties?
- How do your school experiences relate to other parts of your life?
Additional Questions
- How is course material usually presented to you?
- When you need to find something for a course, what method do you use?
- How do you prefer information to be presented to you?
- How do you usually demonstrate that you have learned course objectives?
- What other ways could you use to show you have mastered the objectives of the course?
- What do you usually do in courses that interests you?
- What keeps you interested in a course?
- What other things could be done to make a course more interesting?