Recruiting Interview Participants

What is this?
This resource provides some tips for selecting subjects that represent a variety of perspectives on an issue to understand it fully. 

When should I use this?
When you’re putting together a list of interview subjects, use this to push beyond a list of usual subject matter experts to include people who deliver services, those who receive services, and “extreme users.”

More about this...
Interviewing is one of the most common research methods in the education policy world, but they are usually limited to expert and top-level leaders. This resource encourages researchers to “look in” to people who implement a policy, “look out” to users of a policy, and “seek out” extreme users.