WEEK 9 - RIGOUR

Question 1

What is rigour

Answer 1

fancy word for trustworthiness

Question 2

TERMS

Answer 2

• Credibility
• confirmability
• dependability
• transferability
• authenticity

Question 3

Credibility

Answer 3

• characteristic of qualitative research that refores to accuracy, validity and soudness of data

Question 4

confirmability/ audability

Answer 4

• allows another researches or reader to follow the thinking or conclusions of the investigator
• represents a degree of neutality or the extent to which the finding os a study are shaped by respondednts and not researcher bias, interest

Question 5

dependability

Answer 5

readers can follow how researchers made decisions by evaluating the adequacy of analysis - findings consistent and repeated

Question 6

transferability - fittingness

Answer 6

• degree to which study finding are applicable outside the study situation and degree to which results are meaningful to individuals not involved in research
• knwoledge can be transferred

Question 7

authenticity

Answer 7

fairness in presentation in that all value conflicts and views of participants are noted in the analysis

Question 8

credibility techniques

Answer 8

• member checking
• peer debrefing
• prolonged engagement
• negative case analysis

Question 9

member checking

Answer 9

• done formally and informally
• data and conclusions tested with memebers of those groups from whom the data were orignially obtained

Question 10

peer debriefing

Answer 10

exposing oneself to a disinterested peer in a manner parallelling an analytical session

Question 11

prolonged engagement

Answer 11

sufficinet time in field to understand culture, social setting or phenomenon

Question 12

negative case analysis

Answer 12

searching for and discussing elements that do not support explanations from data analysis
- refines analysis and confirms patterns

Question 13

confirmability techniques

Answer 13

triangulation
audit trail
reflexivity

Question 14

triangulation

Answer 14

Methods triangulation - checking out the consistency of findings generated by different
data collection methods.
* Triangulation of sources - examining the consistency of different data sources from within
the same method. For example:
* Analyst Triangulation - using multiple analyst to review findings or using multiple
observers and analysts
* Theory/perspective triangulation - using multiple theoretical perspectives to examine
and interpret the data

Question 15

audit trail