Professor Sinclair coded her qualitative interviews and derived a theme “Interest in students.” She asked two of her colleagues to code the same material for her. The first colleague A came up with a theme “Great attention to students,” while B derived a theme “Professors interested in students.” Based on the similarities of the themes derived by the three separate coders of the same data, we may conclude that there is some level of ______ related to the findings that may be reported.

a. confidentiality
b. shared coding
c. validity
d. memoing


Ans: C

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