Instruction
RSCH 8300 Disc
Provide a 3-paragraph evaluation of how you would ensure evidence of quality, trustworthiness, and credibility in your mini-project on interviewing and in your qualitative research plan.
Review Chapter 10 in Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches and pages 552-570 inQualitative Research and Evaluation Methods.
Consider how you would ensure the quality, trustworthiness, and credibility of your research and data.
How would you ensure quality, trustworthiness, and credibility for the mini-project on interviewing? Evaluate your work for evidence of quality.
How would you ensure quality, trustworthiness, and credibility for your qualitative research plan? Evaluate your work for evidence of quality.
Required Resources
Course Text: Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches
Chapter 9, `Writing a Qualitative Study`
This chapter focuses on reporting the results of the qualitative study in the final write-up. Creswell addresses several issues that you are likely to come across in your writing, regardless of approach, such as audience, coding, and quotations. He then delves into each of the five approaches and describes how to tackle each one in the final report.
Chapter 10, `Standards of Validation and Evaluation`
This chapter centers on the issue of quality and explores different standards that can be used to evaluate the validity of qualitative research.
Course Text: `Stretching` Exercises for Qualitative Researchers
Appendix H: Sample Sets of Themes and Categories From a Completed Study (pp. 245247)
These pages provide examples of themes found during data analysis. You will be asked to do something similar for this week's Application assignment.
Course Text: Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods
Chapter 8, `Qualitative Analysis and Interpretation` (pp. 502-506; 525534 only)
Patton addresses the challenging process of analyzing the data that has been gathered during a qualitative research study. This section focuses specifically on the process of reporting study findings. The second part of this reading is an excerpt of an interview analysis.
Chapter 9, `Enhancing the Quality and Credibility of Qualitative Analysis` (pp. 552570 only)
In this section, the author presents different sets of criteria that can be used to judge the quality and credibility of a qualitative research study.