Determining Validity in Qualitative Inquiry

By J. D. Creswell, Dana L. Miller. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Management Science and Operations Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Social entrepreneurship research: A review and future research agenda (2020, methodology): “In this process, data and the research process are assessed by someone ac-quainted with the phenomenon being explored (Creswell & Miller, 2000; Lincoln & Guba, 1985).”
• Parents in youth sport: what happens after the game? (2017, methodology): “Maximal variation sampling, inter-coder reliability and member checking (Creswell & Miller, 2000; Patton, 2002) were employed to enhance methodological rigour.”
• Using Mixed-Methods Sequential Explanatory Design: From Theory to Practice (2006, background): “(Lincoln and Guba, 1985; Miles and Huberman 1994; Stake 1995; Creswell 1998; Creswell and Miller 2002 ).”
• Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research (2003, neutral): “Then triangulation is defined to be “a validity procedure where researchers search for convergence among multiple and different sources of information to form themes or categories in a study” ( Creswell & Miller, 2000, p. 126 ).”
• “But I’m oppressed too”: white male college students framing racial emotions as facts and recreating racism (2014, methodology): “The reviewer additionally provided feedback on earlier versions of the manuscript guided by the following questions from Creswell and Miller (2000): “Are the findings grounded in the data? Are inferences logical? Is the category structure appropriate? Can inquiry decisions and methodological shifts ”
• Feedback from research participants: are member checks useful in qualitative research? (2017, background): “A third option is to send participants a written summary of emerging themes or a copy of the draft report to review (Creswell 2000).”
• Fathers' experiences of their transition to fatherhood: a metasynthesis (2011, neutral): “In the current review a ‘constructionist’ position was taken (Creswell & Miller, 2000 ), which holds that there was no single reality or absolute truth waiting to be discovered and it is acknowledged that this interpretation is one way of viewing the phenomenon.”
• An Intersectional Analysis of Latin@ College Women's Counter-stories in Mathematics (2016, methodology): “Member checking the accuracy of the transcripts, coding scheme, and data interpretations was also completed (Creswell & Miller, 2000).”
• Effects of Cooperative Learning on Students at An Giang University in Vietnam. (2012, methodology): “To attest to the reliability of the findings which emerged from the narrative account of the two open questions, an auditor (Creswell & Miller, 2000) was invited to ensure correct interpretations.”
• Students’ Persistence in a Distributed Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study (2007, methodology): “Credibility of the findings was secured by triangulating different sources of information, member checking, inter-coder agreement, rich and thick descriptions of the cases, reviewing and resolving disconfirming evidence, and academic advisor’s auditing (Creswell, 1998; Creswell and Miller, 2002; Lin”
• African American and Latina(o) Community College Students' Social Capital and Student Success (2014, background): “Review o f Educational Research, 32(1), 31 -60.”
• Learning environments that support student creativity: Developing the SCALE (2018, methodology): “…to the validity of the instrument by approaching the initial development phase with a mindset of questioning, consistently reconsidering the themes found in the literature review and the classroom observations, and continually asking what important data may be missing (Creswell & Miller, 2000).”
• Reliability and Validity of Qualitative and Operational Research Paradigm (2008, background): “For example, Creswell & Miller (2000) suggest that the validity is affected by the researcher’s perception of validity in the study and his/her choice of paradigm assumption.”
• My Sister's Keeper: A Qualitative Examination of Mentoring Experiences Among African American Women in Graduate and Professional Schools (2009, background): “In addition, peer-debriefers (Creswell & Miller, 2000) were recruited to review the findings and offer constructive yet critical feedback.”
• Avoiding Traps in Member Checking (2010, neutral): “It may also be collected in different ways such as interviews, questionnaires, observations, and archival data (Creswell & Miller, 2000; McMillan, 2004).”