ABSTRACT
Each answer supplied by an interviewee should be critically considered. The interviewer needs to check whether it satisfies the requirements set by the interview guide, a task known as the evaluation of answers. For interviewers who understand the meaning of their own questions, evaluating the relevance of answers is easy. The final criterion - clarity - is the easiest to evaluate. Whenever the interviewer in his or her role of evaluator concludes that an answer does not meet the required criteria or when he or she is in doubt about this, or when the interviewee has trouble finding an answer, then it is time to probe. The term ‘probing’ covers multiple techniques from which the interviewer has ample choice. By selecting and combining techniques, he or she creates an individual probing strategy adapted to the situation. Clarification is a risky probing technique.
