CRCJ 3002 Lecture Notes - Discourse Analysis, Internal Validity, Soundness
19 Feb 2014
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Within qualitative research: credibility (vs. internal validity) The extent to which we are able to measure what we are trying to measure: dependability (vs. reliability, confirmability (vs. objectivity) Referred to as objectivity in quantitative research: transferability (vs. external validity) Generalizability (what extent can you generalize your findings to the general population: authenticity. Illustrating that analysis is sound and based on supportive, convincing evidence: criteria for warranting are the criteria of: There is evidence that you used semi-structured interviews. Interviews are long enough to give you good data (show how long the interviews lasted for). If you don"t see a range in times of interviews, it doesn"t look very credible. Iterative sampling and systematic analysis: get participants to participate in study based on emerging findings. When you have more than 1 person doing the research (i. e. : interviews and analysis). We already have this because we have 4-5 interviewers. In our critique, we will have to assess this.
