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	مصاحبه نیمه‌ساختاریافته آزمایشی	مصاحبه نیمه‌ساختاریافته حضوری
حوزه	روش‌شناسی پیمایش	روش‌شناسی پیمایش
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1970s–1980s (as formalised pilot testing of qualitative instruments)	1940s onward; widely codified in the 1980s–1990s
پدیدآور	Standard qualitative methods practice; systematised in social research methodology literature	Rooted in sociological interview traditions; systematised by researchers including Robert Merton and Paul Lazarsfeld (focused interview, 1940s) and later elaborated by Steinar Kvale
نوع	Qualitative data collection technique with pre-validation phase	Qualitative data collection technique
منبع بنیادین	Bryman, A. (2016). Social Research Methods (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198714965	Bryman, A. (2016). Social Research Methods (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198722519
نام‌های دیگر	pilot semi-structured interview, pre-tested qualitative interview, pilot interview protocol, trial semi-structured interview	in-person semi-structured interview, semi-structured personal interview, guided face-to-face interview, FFSSI
مرتبط	4	6
خلاصه	A pilot-tested semi-structured interview combines the flexibility of semi-structured interviewing — a guide of open-ended questions allowing conversational depth — with a mandatory pre-study pilot phase in which the guide is trialled on a small subset of participants or informants. The pilot reveals ambiguous questions, poor sequencing, and missing topics before the main data collection begins, substantially strengthening the validity and efficiency of the final instrument.	A face-to-face semi-structured interview is a qualitative data collection technique in which a researcher meets a participant in person and follows a prepared topic guide of open-ended questions while retaining the flexibility to probe, reorder, and explore emerging themes. It combines the consistency of a predetermined agenda with the depth and responsiveness of an open dialogue, making it one of the most widely used methods in qualitative and mixed-methods research across the social, health, and educational sciences.