quality of qualitative research?

Question 1

what are some Criteria of quality?

Answer 1

Credibility (Validity)

Dependability (Reliability)

Transferability (Generalizability)

Confirmability (objectivity)

Question 2

what is Credibility?

Answer 2

The participant’s “truth”

Gaining the participant’s perspective / lived experience

Question 3

how would you gain the participants perspective?

Answer 3

Prolonged engagement, inter-rated reliability, iterative process

Question 4

what is dependability and how do bring it about?

Answer 4

Transparency to ensure the process is understood. But an understanding that it cannot be repeated in an identical fashion

How? “Inquiry Audit”

There is an expectation that even if the same researcher and participant completed the process again – there would be a slightly different outcome

Question 5

what is transferability and how do you bring it about?

Answer 5

No intention of generalising per participants

Naturalistic generalisation

detailed descriptions from information rich participants (purposeful sampling)

Question 6

what confirmability and how do you bring it about?

Answer 6

Interpretations are grounded in the data

How? Member checking; Critical friend / peer debrief; Reflexivity; inter-rater reliability

Question 7

what are the parts of the big tent?

Answer 7

Worthy topic: topic=relevant and timely

Rich Rigor: the study uses significant, abundant, appropriate and complex=theoretical constructs and data and time fields

Sincerity: the study is characterised by= self-reflexivity about subjective values

Credibility: research is marked by=multivocality and member reflection.

Resonance: the research influences, affects or moves particular readers=transferable findings and aesthetic, evocative representation

Significant contribution: the research provides a significant contribution=practically and morally

Ethical: the research considers=procedural ethics and situational and culturally specific ethics

Meaningful coherence: the study=achieves what it purposed to be about and used procedures that fit its goals

Question 8

criterion vs relativist

Answer 8

Universal: Must use all criteria to ensure trustworthiness (Tracy, 2010);

Relativist: Better to use criteria appropriate for your study (Levitt, Morrow, Wertz, Motulsky, & Ponterotto, 2016).

Question 9

problems of commonly used approaches to quality

Answer 9

Member checking and inter-relater reliability the most common methods used in sport and exercise science qualitative research to ensure “trustworthiness”