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Action Research: Data Collection Considerations: Sampling, Validity, Reliability, Bias
Action Research: Data Collection Considerations: Sampling, Validity, Reliability, Bias
considerations
Sampling, validity, reliability, bias
Validity:
• External critics (originality of the data)
• Internal critics (accuracy of the data)
External criticism is
concerned with the
authenticity or
genuineness of the data
and should be
considered first.
• External criticism helps us to avoid using false
evidence and thus enables us to us the genuine
material.
1. Date of event
– Check date of writing or date of producing the
source
2. Place of production
3. The authorship
-.Clarify the name of person or people who
produced the documents
4. Analysis of its production
- Aware of the pre-existing material from which
it was produced.