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1.3 Critiquing Qualitative Data Analysis (Data Validation)

The document discusses criteria for critiquing qualitative data analysis and validating results. It identifies 4 primary criteria for validation: credibility, authenticity, criticality, and integrity. It then provides steps for ensuring validity, including using a skilled moderator, employing triangulation through multiple perspectives, and actively seeking alternative explanations to the results.

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1.3 Critiquing Qualitative Data Analysis (Data Validation)

The document discusses criteria for critiquing qualitative data analysis and validating results. It identifies 4 primary criteria for validation: credibility, authenticity, criticality, and integrity. It then provides steps for ensuring validity, including using a skilled moderator, employing triangulation through multiple perspectives, and actively seeking alternative explanations to the results.

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Critiquing Qualitative Data
Analysis (Data Validation)
Whittemore, Chase, and Mandle (2001), analyzed 13 writings
about validation and came up with key validation criteria from
these studies. They classified these criteria into primary and
secondary criteria. They found 4 primary criteria which are:

1. Credibility (Are the results an accurate interpretation of the


participants’ meaning?)
2. Authenticity (Are different voices heard?)
3. Criticality (Is there a critical appraisal of all aspects of the
research?)
4. Integrity (Are the investigators self-critical?)
Steps in Ensuring
Validity
1. Ensuring validity is choosing a well-trained and
skilled moderator (or facilitator).

A good moderator will check personal bias and


expectations at the door. He or she is interested in
learning as much candid information from the
research participants as possible, and respectful
neutrality is a must if the goal is valid qualitative
research.
2. Employ a strategy known as triangulation

To accomplish this, the research is done from multiple


perspectives. This could take the form of using several
moderators, different locations, multiple individuals analyzing
the same data essentially any technique that would inform the
results from different angles. For some applications, for
example, an organization may choose to run focus groups in
parallel through two entirely different researchers and then
compare the results.
3. Establish validity is to actively seek alternative
explanations to what appear to be research results

If the researcher is able to exclude other


scenarios, he is or she is able to strengthen
the validity of the findings.

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