Strategies for ensuring trustworthiness in qualitative research projects

摘要: Although many critics are reluctant to accept the trustworthiness of qualitative research, frameworks for ensuring rigour in this form work have been existence years. Guba’s constructs, particular, won considerable favour and focus paper. Here researchers seek satisfy four criteria. In addressing credibility, investigators attempt demonstrate that a true picture phenomenon under scrutiny is being presented. To allow transferability, they provide sufficient detail context fieldwork reader be able decide whether prevailing environment similar another situation with which he or she familiar findings can justifiably applied other setting. The meeting dependability criterion difficult work, although should at least strive enable future investigator repeat study. Finally, achieve confirmability, must take steps emerge from data not their own predispositions. paper concludes by suggesting it responsibility research methods teachers ensure comparable model followed students undertaking inquiry.