InterviewRevised

InterviewRevised is a framework and accompanying set of tools designed to improve the design, conduct, and analysis of interviews across research, journalism, and industry hiring. It aims to standardize core practices while allowing adaptation to specific domains, with an emphasis on transparency, ethics, and reproducibility.

The concept emerged from collaborations among scholars, practitioners, and developers who sought to address variability in interview methods and reporting. The project was introduced as an open framework that could be adopted incrementally, with an emphasis on clear protocols, documentation, and community governance.

Core components of InterviewRevised include a modular interview protocol that guides question sequencing, informed consent and confidentiality safeguards, and training resources for interviewers. It also features a coding schema for qualitative responses, a rubric for assessing response quality, and an analytics module that tracks metrics such as question clarity, interviewer neutrality, and data richness. The framework supports versioning to capture changes in protocols over time.

Implementation typically involves an open-source reference toolkit, accompanying documentation, and example datasets. Organizations use InterviewRevised to plan interviews, train staff, and compare results across studies or projects. It is applied in university research, investigative journalism, and human resources to improve consistency and the auditability of findings.

Reception to InterviewRevised has been mixed but generally positive, with notes on improved replicability and training benefits, alongside concerns about learning curves and the potential for overstandardization to dampen exploratory dialogue. See also: Qualitative research, Interview protocol, Content analysis.