Validity, trustworthiness and rigour: quality

and the idea of qualitative research

By

Nathan E & Yitagesu H.

 Outline
• What does it mean the topic of discussion?
Does it make sense?
• How would this help us in our own research?
Which element of it and how ?
• What do you say about the writing itself?
What may improve?

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What is the topic of discussion?
Does it make sense? How

• The paper argues that it gives less sense to

establish a set of generic criteria for making
quality judgments about qualitative research as
is no unified qualitative research paradigm

• no universal criteria for judging quality in

qualitative research
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What is the topic of discussion?
Does it make sense? How

• However, a qualitative researcher should rigorously

follow a number of verification strategies contributing
for trustworthiness (credibility, dependability,
transferability and confirmability)

• Each of them are subjected to arguments to researchers

of different epistemic paradigms

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What is the topic of discussion?
Does it make sense? How

• the responsibility for ensuring rigour lies

solely with the researchers themselves rather
than with the readers of the research report

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How would this help you in your own
research?
Which element of it and how?
• The paper provides us to concentrate on looking
a different approaches to judge the quality rather
than searching for an overarching set of criteria
each
• All argued criteria are important to our future
qualitative research activities

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What do you say about the writing itself?
What may improve?

• The paper helps us to consider quality

judgment criteria with respect to different
notions of qualitative research but,
– the author presented “validity” as separate entity
rather than part of trustworthness
– full of repetitions

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Acknowledgements
• AAU, SPH for arranging advanced qualitative
research methods the program

• Dr. Mirgissa K, for making us reflect this

interesting topic

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Comments
• Framework analysis and content analysis ?
• Natural setting, holism, human instrument,
emergent design, ?
• Thematic analysis : easy to compare with
other findings ?
• Validity and reliability ?
• Credibility, transferability, dependability,

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Comments and questions

• Phases of TA ?
– Familiarizing
– Initial coding
– Searching for themes

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 Note:Qualitative data analysis
• When ?
– At the begging of problem definition ?
– Should not be shake
– Code Book
• A researchers in QR in a “research instrument”
• You as a researcher as a person
• Saturation is also about data analysis ??
• “Grief management Theory ?”
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Narrative /Journalist analysis
• Case analysis- make the case to speak ?
• Content analysis=How many times the content
(issues) has been mentioned ?= sickness,
illness, …? If I am interested in “illness” I searc
for from the tarnscripts ?
• Back and forth movement in analysis
• MaxQDA 12 ??? Important software ??
• Manifest, latent, more latent,
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