In an effort to give you some hands-on experience with both interviewing and analyzing interview data, you are required to conduct two (2) interviews lasting a minimum of 5 minutes each. If your interviews last longer than 10 minutes, you must only transcribe the first 10 minutes of each interview.

You must interview individuals who are knowledgeable on the research topic of doctoral persistence (either as experts or those who have had success in this area) and use the revised interview questions.After the interviews, you will need to transcribe the interview content verbatim in a Word or Excel document. Next, use the interview transcripts to code and derive themes according to the instructions : Qualitative Data Analysis. Use the template format provided in the attachment.

a. Five Interview Questions
1. How would you describe your experience while studying your doctoral program?
2. What challenges and barriers did you experience while studying the doctoral program?
3. What did you learn from the challenges and barriers that you experienced during the doctoral course?
4. How does understanding these factors improve a student`s chance of completing the doctoral program?
5. If you are given the chance, what would be your advice to a prospective doctoral student in DBA? Why?