Instructions
Complete the following:
- Business Problem: Formulate a current business problem using examples and descriptions drawn from scholarly literature or a specific business organization.
- Using your ABRP or the Example Project, identify and briefly explain the business problem.
- Explain the problem’s relationship to the research question.
- Research Question: Refine the business problem into one or more research questions to define a research objective suitable for investigation.
- From the business problem, explain the research questions that require an exploratory qualitative inquiry.
- Address the purpose and intent of the business problem with each question.
- Interview Guide: Create a preponderance of interview questions relevant to the research questions.
- Provide an interview guide of at least 10 questions to elicit data for answering the research questions.
- Craft interview questions that are sufficiently open-ended to permit the interviewee to provide rich answers.
- Expert Review: Explain how to arrange an expert review of the interview guide, including a method for identifying and qualifying experts to serve on the review.
- Describe how you will set up an expert review of your interview guide.
- Explain the role of expert review in certifying the credibility and integrity of the work while mitigating participant risk.
- Pilot Study: Explain how a pilot study ensures that the responses prompted by the interview guide adequately address the research questions.
- Describe a pilot study that you could use to test the interview guide before use with actual participants.
- Explain how the pilot study mitigates participant risk.
Additional Info
- Create an APA-formatted report organized according to the numbered sections above.
- Use the optional APA template or the Evidence and APA Campus page linked in Resources.
- Use (Level 1) section headings to label each of sections 1–5. Use subsection headings (Level 2, and so on) as needed.
- Include a cover page with the appropriate information, including your name.
- Length of paper: 3–4 double-spaced pages (plus the interview guide).
- Format resources and citations according to current APA style and formatting.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.


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