Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
By Nahid Golafshani. 2003
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The use of reliability and validity are common in quantitative research and now it is reconsidered in the qualitative research paradigm. Since reliability and validity are rooted in positivist perspective then they should be redefined for their use in a naturalistic approach. Like reliability and validity as used in quantitative research are providing springboard to examine what these two terms mean in the qualitative research paradigm, triangulation as used in quantitative research to test the reliability and validity can also illuminate some ways to test or maximize the validity and reliability of a qualitative study. Therefore, reliability, validity and triangulation, if they are relevant research concepts, particularly from a qualitative point of view, have to be redefined in order to reflect the multiple ways of establishing truth. Key words: Reliability, Validity, Triangulation, Construct, Qualitative, and Quantitative This article discusses the use of reliability and validity in the qualitative research paradigm. First, the meanings of quantitative and qualitative research are discussed. Secondly, reliability and validity as used in quantitative research are discussed as a way of providing a springboard to examining what these two terms mean and how they can be tested in the qualitative research paradigm. This paper concludes by drawing upon the use of triangulation in the two paradigms (quantitative and qualitative) to show how the changes have influenced our understanding of reliability, validity and triangulation in qualitative studies.
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Citations in the corpus
- How to Conduct a Mini-Ethnographic Case Study: A Guide for Novice Researchers (2017, unknown): “The research methodology should be such that accounts for potential threats to validity through triangulation of data collection, appropriate variable labeling, and accounting for potential researcher bias (Fusch, 2013) to ensure validity of the study results (Golafshani, 2003).”
- Leading teachers' perspective on teacher-AI collaboration in education (2023, unknown): “To ensure the reliability of the qualitative data analysis, the study employed two strategies: (1) respondent validation and employing moderators (Golafshani, 2003).”
- Understanding business ecosystem using a 6C framework in Internet-of-Things-based sectors (2015, unknown): “The reliability and validity are two factors which any qualitative researcher should be concerned about while designing a study, analysing data and maintaining the high quality of the study(Gibbert et al., 2008; Golafshani, 2003; Patton, 1990).”
- Shopping addiction: A preliminary investigation among Maltese university students (2008, unknown): “The full range of the phenomena was explored through the social interactive process of the interview and reported explicitly in the attempt to establish rigor (Golafshani 2003).”
- Rigor or Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Strategies, Reconceptualization, and Recommendations (2017, unknown): “positivist tradition, and to an extent, positivism has been defined by a systematic theory of validity.(22) Validity is rooted from empirical conceptions as universal laws, evidence, objectivity, truth, actuality, deduction, reason, fact, and mathematical data, to name only a few.”
- Rigor in Qualitative Social Work Research: A Review of Strategies Used in Published Articles (2011, unknown): “Golafshani, N. (2003). Understanding reliability and validity in qualitative research. Qualitative Report, 8, 597–607. Group for the Advancement of doctoral education. (2003). Guidelines for quality in social work doctoral programs (Rev.”
- Interview Protocol Refinement: Fine-Tuning Qualitative Research Interview Questions for Multi-Racial Populations in Malaysia (2018, unknown): “In qualitative studies, the most important measurement of reliability and validity is the quality of the research findings (Golafshani, 2003; Lincoln & Guba, 1999; Stenbacka, 2001).”
- Exploring the experience of introjected regulation for exercise across gender in adolescence (2009, unknown): “one investigator’s interpretation of the data) was incorporated to promote dependability and trustworthiness of the interpretations in relation to introjected regulation (Golafshani, 2003).”