MIC structure

Question 1

What is the structure for MIC?

Answer 1

Please
Eat
Hot
And
Spicy
Ramen

Question 2

What does it stand for?

Answer 2

Point
Explain
Help/Hinder
Apply
Solution
Restate

Question 3

Point

Answer 3

PET strength or weakness with reference to item
e.g. One **theroretical strength of using unstructured interviews to investigate the differences in attainment for coursework in boys compared to girls is that it gives “much more depth of response”.

Question 4

Explain

Answer 4

Why is this important to consider?
e.g.This is a consideration to think about because boys often underachieve, and an unstructured interviews to investigate will allow them to be open enough to discuss why this happens.

Question 5

Help/Hinder

Answer 5

How is it helpful in investigating or how does it hinder the gathering of research.
e.g. This may help the researcher as the answers will be more authentic and thus, higher in validity.

Question 6

Apply

Answer 6

Add study and perspective
e.g. However, structured interviews may still create a Hawthorne effect when interviewing students as status and owner differences like age, gender and ethnicity can shape the interview. Nonetheless, interpretivists favour that open-ended questions allow interviewees to express themselves kin their own words,thereby producing qualitative data that gives us an insight into their meanings.

Question 7

Solution

Answer 7

Way to fix issue stated
e.g. One solution to increase validity amongst children. is to make sure rapport is build to put interviewees at ease allowing ton open up more and be truthful and honest.

Question 8

Restate

Answer 8

Link back to first point stated
e.g Overall, unstructured interviews are extremely useful to investigate attainment as their informality can put the interviewees at ease and thus the interviewer can gain insight as to why there are differences in attainment between boys and girls in coursework.