Research Methodology

The primary methodology that we used to answer the research questions was the interview. We assigned each of the five group members two people to interview. The selection of interviewees was made based upon their significance and role of the growth and change of Indiana University's A-V department. The degree of this significance was largely determined through the analysis of secondary resources. Some of the most valuable secondary resources included records from the School of Education, old newspaper clippings, and an unpublished historical compilation of the IST Department.

Although we left the actual interview questions very open-ended, we did not do this for the responses. Instead, we utilized a question matrix that was developed directly from the two time lines that we had used to form the questions. This maintained continuity between the development of the questions, and the answering of them that was used to categorize the responses of the interviewees into time periods, and broken down further into societal issues, or issues related specifically to I.U. A-V. We all then went and gathered the information, and consolidated it together, within the matrix. This was extremely useful in maintaining a frame for the questions, and made it easier to divide group tasks based on that information.