respondant validation

Question 1

Definition

Answer 1

Asking respondents to check the findings / analyze and validate them . Used by interpretivists as a way of being reflexive.

Question 2

Advantages

Answer 2

Ethics - we can check if they feel ethically harmed or if there is any false information about them
ethical arguments for insisting that research respondents should at least have sight of reports before they are published, if not a right to respond to such reports.
Validity - Check if it’s correct
Reliability - can be used to quantify correctly
Objectivity - see if the results were objective
Could more accurately represent the group studied

Question 3

Limitations

Answer 3

Validity - could lie if they don’t like the findings
Objectivity - there is still a small extent of interpreting
Can be hard to improve reliability
Some individuals may have more power than others to shape the view of itself and of the research.

Question 4

Interpretivist or positivist

Answer 4

respondent validation is usually associated with qualitative approaches to research but the issues raised are equally relevant to quantitative and mixed methods approaches.