Conducting qualitative research in any discipline warrants two actions: accessing participants and eliciting their ideas. In chemistry education research, survey techniques have been used to increase access to participants and diversify samples. Interview tasks (such as card sorting, using demonstrations, and using simulations) have been used to elicit participant ideas. While surveys can increase participation and remove geographic barriers from studies, they typically lack the ability to obtain detailed, thick description of participant ideas, which are possible from in-person interviews. Minimal research in CER has examined how to harness technology to synthesize traditionally diverse research approaches to advance the field. This paper presents a novel method for interviewing research participants employing freely available technology to investigate student ideas about the purposes of conducting chemistry outreach, how success of an outreach event is evaluated, and student understanding of the chemistry content embedded in activities facilitated at events. As the outreach practitioner population comes from numerous institutions and is therefore geographically diverse, technology is necessary in order to gain access to these students. To elicit their ideas and remove barriers associated with rapport, interview tasks are adapted and implemented electronically. The description of a novel set of methods is coupled with evidence from the interviews to illustrate the trustworthiness of the data obtained and to support the method as a means to improve qualitative data collection in chemistry education research. These methods create a unique data collection environment for off-site investigations and are applicable to all disciplines, as they shed light on how qualitative research in the 21st century can increase the diversity of samples and improve the transferability of findings.

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一种新颖的定性方法，用于改善获取，诱导和样品的多样性，以提高转移性​​，适用于研究化学外展

在任何学科中进行定性研究都需要采取两项行动：与参与者接触并激发他们的想法。在化学教育研究中，调查技术已用于增加与参与者的接触和使样本多样化。访谈任务（例如卡片分类，使用演示和使用模拟）已被用来引起参与者的想法。尽管调查可以增加研究的参与度并消除研究中的地理障碍，但它们通常缺乏获得面对面访谈的详细而详尽的描述的能力。CER的最少研究已经研究了如何利用技术来综合传统上多样化的研究方法来推动该领域的发展。本文提供了一种新颖的方法，用于采访使用免费技术的研究参与者，以调查学生有关进行化学外展的目的，如何评估一次外展活动的想法以及学生对活动中促进活动的化学含量的理解。由于外展从业人员来自众多机构，因此在地域上是多种多样的，因此必须有技术才能接触到这些学生。为了激发他们的想法并消除与人际关系相关的障碍，访谈任务以电子方式进行了调整和实施。一组新颖的方法的描述与来自访谈的证据相结合，以说明所获得数据的可信度，并支持该方法作为在化学教育研究中改进定性数据收集的一种手段。这些方法为异地调查创造了独特的数据收集环境，并适用于所有学科，因为它们阐明了21世纪的定性研究如何增加样本的多样性并改善结果的可传递性。