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Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research

• By: Jerome Kirk & Marc L. Miller
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
• Series: Qualitative Research Methods
• Publication year: 1986
• Online pub date: January 01, 2011
• Discipline: Anthropology
• Methods: Validity , Reliability , Measurement
• DOI: https:// doi. org/10.4135/9781412985659
• Keywords: natural sciences , reliability and validity , social science , social scientists , sociology , tradition Show all Show less
• Print ISBN: 9780803924703
• Online ISBN: 9781412985659
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Kirk and Miller define what is -- and what is not -- qualitative research. They suggest that the use of numbers in the process of recording and analyzing observations is less important than that the research should involve sustained interaction with the people being studied, in their own language and on their own turf. Following a chapter on objectivity, the authors discuss the role of reliability and validity and the problems that arise when these issues are neglected. They present a paradigm for the qualitative research process that makes it possible to pursue validity without neglecting reliability.

Front Matter

• Series Introduction
• Editors' Introduction
• Objectivity in Qualitative Research
• Reliability and Validity
• The Problem of Validity
• Toward Theoretical Validity
• The Problem of Reliability
• Ethnographic Decision Making: The Four Phases of Qualitative Research

Back Matter

• About the Authors
• Qualitative Research Methods

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Reliability and Validity of Qualitative and Operational Research Paradigm

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