Triangulation, Respondent Validation, and Democratic Participation in Mixed Methods Research

By Harry Torrance. 2012

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Over the past 10 years or so the “Field” of “Mixed Methods Research” (MMR) has increasingly been exerting itself as something separate, novel, and significant, with some advocates claiming paradigmatic status. Triangulation is an important component of mixed methods designs. Triangulation has its origins in attempts to validate research findings by generating and comparing different sorts of data, and different respondents’ perspectives, on the topic under investigation. Respondent validation has sometimes been included in such processes, but it is an element that has not attracted significant attention from the MMR community. The article argues that attention to respondent validation is a significant issue for methodological debate and that it should be an important aspect of the development of democratic participation in MMR.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Member Checking (2016, background): “The study needed to produce results which would have credibility in a clinical environment (Rolfe, 2006); thus, the research design had to “hold its own” in a research world dominated by quantitative clinical research and increasing numbers of mixed method studies (Torrance, 2012).”
Research Design for Mixed Methods (2017, methodology): “Mixed methods research is based on the idea of heightened understanding through methodological triangulation (Denzin, 1970, 2012; Molina-Azorin, 2007; Torrance, 2012).”