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The interview guide was revised several
times during the pretest in the following aspects:

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Changes were made in the order of some questions so that the researcher
could understand participants’ situations more easily.

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Some questions were added in order to avoid misunderstanding.

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Changes were made in the structure of some of the questions (e.g., tasks
requested of AskERIC) in order for the participants to easily understand the
question

The interview procedure of the study was
also modified after the pretest in the following aspects:

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Systematic sampling technique (every N^th request) was replaced
by theoretical sampling to obtain a maximum variability within the context of
the study setting.

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The timing of sending the initial recruitment message was changed from
the day AskERIC received the request to three days after so that the recruitment
message would be sent to the potential participant right after s/he received a
response from AskERIC. Since AskERIC usually responds to its clients within two
business days after receiving requests, this condition was desirable to prevent
the Hawthorn effect up to the point at which the participant receives an answer
or information from AskERIC

The researcher examined the patterns
between tasks requested of intermediaries and situational factors in order to
discover possible associations between them. Based on the results of the
analysis, working hypotheses were developed concerning the associations observed
between tasks requested of intermediaries and situational factors as well as
among situational factors.