Quality in Qualitative Research

Looks at a range of issues used to judge the quality of qualitative research including transferability (generalizability), validity, reliability, inter-rater reliability, member checking, respondent validation, negative/deviant cases, theoretical sampling and constant comparison. This was a lecture given to postgraduate (graduate) students at the University of Huddersfield as part of a course on Qualitative Data Analysis. To learn more about social research methods you might be interested in this new, inexpensive, postgraduate, distance learning course: MSc Social Research and Evaluation. The course is delivered entirely via the Internet. http://sre.hud.ac.uk/ Books and project referred to in the video: Bryman, A. (1988). Quantity and Quality in Social Research. London: Unwin Hyman/Routledge. Campbell, D. T., & Stanley, J. (1966). Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research. Chicago: Rand McNally. Fielding, N. G., & Fielding Jane, L. (1986). Linking data (Vol. 4). Newbury Park ; London: Sage. Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Chicago: Aldine. Hammersley, M. (1992). What’s wrong with ethnography? London: Routledge. Kirk, J., & Miller, M. L. (1986). Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research. Newbury Park, Calif. ; London: Sage. Peräkylä, A. (1997). Reliability and Validity in Research Based on Tapes and Transcripts. In D. Silverman (Ed.), Qualitative Research. Theory, Method and Practice (pp. 201-220). London: Sage. Seale, C. F. (1999). The Quality of Qualitative Research. London: Sage. Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) University Center for Social and Urban Research, at the University of Pittsburgh, and QDAP-UMass, in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. USA. http://cat.ucsur.pitt.edu/aboutQDAP.aspx