More Issues in Design for Qualitative Research (continued)
One major point of design is to ensure that you get the depth, detail, vividness, and nuance that are the strength of qualitative research.
Most indicators of validity and reliability do not fit qualitative research.
Instead, researchers judge the credibility of qualitative work by its transparency, consistency-coherence, and communicability.
Transparency means that a reader of qualitative research report is able to see the basic processes of data collection.
- Maintain the marked-up transcripts and include in the transcripts the in-text comments that you jotted down to indicate what was happening in the interview.
- He seemed to think this was very funny.
- She was very nervous at this point, standing up and sitting down again.