Validity in Qualitative Evaluation

By V. Lub. 2015

93 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This article provides a discussion on the question of validity in qualitative evaluation. Although validity in qualitative inquiry has been widely reflected upon in the methodological literature (and is still often subject of debate), the link with evaluation research is underexplored. Elaborating on epistemological and theoretical conceptualizations by Guba and Lincoln and Creswell and Miller, the article explores aspects of validity of qualitative research with the explicit objective of connecting them with aspects of evaluation in social policy. It argues that different purposes of qualitative evaluations can be linked with different scientific paradigms and perspectives, thus transcending unproductive paradigmatic divisions as well as providing a flexible yet rigorous validity framework for researchers and reviewers of qualitative evaluations.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/064e6a530b01dbc8318b90e474656e2e3ea5eee0

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In General Health Professions

1. Nathalie Haug
2. Noella Edelmann
3. Ines Mergel

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Nathalie Haug
2. Noella Edelmann
3. Ines Mergel

Citations in the corpus

• Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews (2019, methodology): “In order to ensure validity and reliability, we describe the logic of the inquiry, the purpose, and the reporting style of our approach in the methodology section (Lub, 2015).”