Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research, Volume 1Qualitative research is a sociological and anthropological tradition of inquiry. Most critically, qualitative research involves sustained interaction with the people being studied in their own language, and on their own turf. To see qualitative research as strictly disengaged from any form of counting is to miss the point that its basic strategy depends on the reconciliation of diverse research tactics. It is our view that qualitative research can be performed as social science. Understanding the workings of a scientific endeavor, whether it is of the natural or social variety, entails an appreciation of its objectivity. By this convention, the objectivity of a piece of qualitative research is evaluated in terms of the reliability and validity of its observations - the two concepts to which this monograph is devoted. |
Contents
Series Introduction | 5 |
Reliability and Validity | 13 |
The Problem of Validity | 21 |
Toward Theoretical Validity | 32 |
The Problem of Reliability | 41 |
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