COLLAPSE SUBDISCUSSIONTrent Nguyen Trent Nguyen 7:56amAug 5 at 7:56amManage Discussion Entry Marcus: This is why peer-reviewed scholarly sources are always preferred over non-peer-reviewed ones. When...

Trent Nguyen

Marcus:

This is why peer-reviewed scholarly sources are always preferred over non-peer-reviewed ones. When sources that have been reviewed by experts, the quality is present. At times, editors can ask researchers to provide the raw data in order for a manuscript to be reviewed for publication. As a qualitative researcher when you interview participants, the same manner of asking questions should be the same, your mannerisms should be consistent, etc., in order to increase the trustworthiness of the data. Just remember you are a researcher collecting data, not a therapist per se, especially when participants struggle with sharing intimate, difficult details. When qualitative researchers engage in research, they usually suspend their perspectives on a phenomenon, and to allow themes and patterns to emerge organically, based on the data collected.

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Qualitative research or methods will identify trends based on data trustworthiness. Credibility (internal validity) is established through triangulation and contributes to the reliability and reality; Triangulation involves checking multiple methods utilized, including observations, interviews, and documents (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Triangulation can involve independent analyzers to cross-reference the researcher’s data collection findings. Triangulation increases credibility, reliability, and validation in your research. Member checks are conducted to ensure credibility and validity and help fill in any gaps from the interviews. Data audits are conducted to validate reliability, especially among peer reviews in which analyzers can confirm the validity of the raw data (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Qualitative research allows for replication, which falls under reliability or confirmability. If replicated, it produces the same static results (although this is not valid, no human participants are alike, and responses will usually differ). Researchers need to prove that results are independent and do not produce unconscious or conscious biases. Merriam and Tisdell (2016) content transferability or external validity attempts to generalize the study as it applies to other situations or contexts. Qualitative research requires purposeful or nonprobability sampling, which is used to understand the depths of the specific data relative to the context of what was collected (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). A purposive sampling includes the characteristics of what was directly related to the research questions.

Reference

Merriam, S. B., Tisdell, E. J. (2016).Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation(4th ed). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.