Describe three of the strategies a qualitative researcher can use to ensure the research validity of her study.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The students’ answers will vary depending upon the strategies they choose. The strategies they can choose from are included in Table 11.2 and include: critical friend, extended fieldwork, external audit, low-inference descriptors, multiple data sources, multiple investigators, multiple methods, multiple theoretical perspectives, negative-case sampling, participant feedback or member checking, pattern matching, peer review, reflexivity, researcher-as-detective, ruling out alternative explanations, and triangulation.
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