Sociology

The interview method is finding necessity in most spheres of research. Indeed, the overriding quality about interview is that it brings out data that is broad (Flick 123) as well as direct pointed (Flick 92).
               
Focus to the CCBC research project
A study on students about their views on their education would benefit a lot from employing the interview method. This is because interview possesses qualities rare to find in any other method.
   
An interview for example allows a free interaction between the respondents and the interviewer (Flick 74). In the case of the students, they best cooperate under an atmosphere where they feel their individual views are important and are not just study subjects in a non interactive way. This is why Flick (79) feels a non structured interview can help meet some of the otherwise forgotten social issues in social research. The students for example, when allowed to give independent opinions in a relaxed way, will participate more.
 
An interview will also allow direction by the interviewer to the students. Flick (92) agrees that with the interviewer around and making clarifications, the chances of collecting the real data needed are very high.
   
The flexibility in the usage of the various types of interview can go a long way in ensuring more data is collected as well as that data collected is relevant. In Flick (79), an unstructured interview is proposed as a way of collecting more data.  This, Flick (74) says, is easy to employ to gauge the general feelings. This will be a best target in collecting the general feeling and thoughts of the students in CCBC about their education. The unstructured interview gives them that rare chance to talk more about how they feel. This in the end collects more and relevant data from them.
     
A structured interview on the other hand would be readily applicable in seeking to classify the students i.e. those who are least satisfied from those who are most satisfied with their education. This makes it easy to obtain from the general direction of the discussion, the category of a student. Flick (85), proposes such a model for the highly specific assignments when he talks of interviews which are problem-focused, in this case, education quality is focused.
   
This serves to confirm the ability of interview to tackle the different aspects of the project. Indeed, it is enough evidence that interview method has the necessary methodology to conclusively achieve high results in the proposed study at CCBC colleges.
               
Why interview than other methods
Interview method can achieve a lot compared to any of the other research methods in this particular research. The documents method for example, may present a lot of work to do in this kind of research. It is because such a method will entail coding and synthesizing of information (Flick 277). Since students in three colleges are expected to be many, it is easier to conduct an interview on them than analyze each students records. The records on the students can also be erroneous. The same applies to secondary data which needs much analyzing of information related to individual students. Basing on this case of CCBC, interviews present more relevant data than secondary data will. Secondary data is also more general than interviews. However, this research focuses on individuals. Individualistic views are best tackled using interview (Flick 277).
   
Interview is also best suited to qualitative data compared to experiment method (Flick 15). Since this research is more qualitative (deals with attitude and feeling) than it is quantitative, interview qualifies more in this research than does experiment method.
   
Flick (228) identifies that research observations entails much planning that should be specific. Issues such as when, where, and why ought to be addressed conclusively in both participant observation and scientific observations. Since the study targets students with varied lesson times (since they take differences courses), it is an interview (especially informal interviews) that best captures this quality about students than observation does.
                       
Conclusion
In conclusion then, for this research task on students of CCBC, interview method qualifies as the best option with the capability to produce both valid and reliable data from the students.