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Evaluating Qualitative Research in Social Geography: Establishing ‘Rigour’ in Interview Analysis
Jamie Baxter,John Eyles +1 more
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A review of 31 empirical and eighteen substantive papers by qualitative social geographers mainly using in-depth interviews reveals little explicit reference to the principle(s) adopted to enhance "rigour" and to ensure meaningful inference as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
A review of 31 empirical and eighteen substantive papers by qualitative social geographers mainly using in-depth interviews reveals little explicit reference to the principle(s) adopted to enhance ‘rigour’ and to ensure meaningful inference. Given the modest explicit discussion of evaluative criteria in these papers, a scheme from evaluation research itself is critically reviewed. A set of evaluation questions derived from this review and their application to an empirical piece of qualitative work frame an argument for a general set of criteria rather than rigid rules for assessing qualitative work. Such criteria can serve as anchor points for qualitative evaluation.read more
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Reliability and Validity
TL;DR: Methods to evaluate reliability and validity depend on the research purpose, assumptions, and methodologies and may involve quantitative as well as qualitative assessments.
Ensuring the Quality of the Findings of Qualitative Research: Looking at Trustworthiness Criteria
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method to find the minimum number of neurons required for each node in a neural network, which is called Jeteraps, which can be found at the following link http://jeteraps.scholarlinkresearch.com/abstractview.php?id=19.
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Snowball sampling: using social networks to research non‐heterosexual women
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore snowball sampling, a recruitment method that employs research into participants' social networks to access specific populations, and argue that due to the use of social networks and interpersonal relations, snowball sampling (in)forms how individuals act and interact in focus groups, couple interviews and interviews.
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Insider or outsider, both or neither: some dilemmas of interviewing in a cross-cultural setting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the ways that inter-cultural perceptions, interactions and representations influenced the fieldwork process, and their ultimate effect on my interpretation and writing of the final text.
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Approaches to sampling and case selection in qualitative research: examples in the geography of health.
TL;DR: The value of a framework suggested by Miles and Huberman is explored, to evaluate the sampling strategies employed in three examples of research by the authors, and how far the criteria Miles andHuberman suggest seem helpful for planning 'sample' selection in qualitative research.
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