Assessing validity in qualitative research

Question 1

Triangulation

Answer 1

Compares the results from either two or more methods of data collection or data sources

Investigator triangulation

Question 2

Respondent validation

Answer 2

‘Member checking’

Investigator’s account is compared with research subjects accounts to establish correspondence

Question 3

Reflexivity

Answer 3

Sensitivity to the ways in which the researcher and the research process have shaped the collected date e.g. prior assumptions and experience

Question 4

Deviant case analysis

Answer 4

Paying attention to, searching for, discussing elements which contradict