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Assignment Task Part 2

Respond to at least one of your colleagues’ posts in a 150 word response and search the Internet and/or the Walden Library for a different article related to trustworthiness and/or quality of qualitative research that offers other techniques or strategies. Explain how these other techniques or strategies might further ensure quality, trustworthiness, and credibility in qualitative research. Finally, evaluate the feasibility of your colleague’s strategies. Reference the article you found to support your explanation. Use proper APA format, citations, and referencing.

Angelia Slavings 

Ensuring the Quality, Trustworthiness, and Credibility of Qualitative Research. 

Trustworthiness

       According to Burkholder et al. (2020), trustworthiness in qualitative research is the researcher's confidence in their methods and sources. At the beginning of the study, this will include the study's purpose and design. Then the researcher can decide on the collection methods that will be most relevant, trustworthy, and align with the research and porose of the study (p. 189).

Transparency

      Transparency is vital to the validity and trustworthiness of a study (Ratvich & Carl, 2021). There are questions to consider when being transparent in a study. They include: clearing the research, being clear about the participant's time and expectations, the timelines, the roles of the participants and researchers, is confidentiality and anonymity are ensured.

Validity and Credibility

     Shenton (2004)  wrote that the criteria for addressing are internal validity and ensuring their study measures its intended measures. Credibility is the internal validity of research or the researcher's interpretation of the study that is factually accurate (Morris & Paris,2021). To be credible, the researcher needs to use well-established research methods, be familiar with the culture of the participants, use random sampling, triangulate the data, ensure the participants are being honest with their contributions to the research, use iterative questioning, use negative case analysis, have frequent briefing sessions, have peer-reviewed the feedback, be reflective, address the background including any funding sources of the researcher, encourage periodic member checks, ensure the thick description of the researcher is included and have a thorough literature and study review (Shenton,2004; Morris & Paris,2021).

Quality

The researcher will present quality research findings by ensuring the study is credible, transparent, and trustworthy.

References:

Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., Crawford, L. M., & Hitchcock, J. H.  (Eds.). (2020). Research designs and methods: An applied guide for the scholar-practitioner.

       Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Morris, J. E., & Paris, L. F. (2021). Rethinking arts-based research methods in education: enhanced participant engagement processes to increase research

      credibility and knowledge translation. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2021.1926971

Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2021). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological (2nd ed.) Sage Publications.

Shenton, A.K. (2004). Strategies for ensuring trustworthiness in qualitative research project. Education for information 22(2), 63-75.

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