LibGuides: EDR-8400: Advanced Qualitative Methodology and Designs: Week 6 Resources

Week 6 Resources

Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Road Map from Beginning to End

Bloomberg, L. D., & Volpe, M. (2019). Completing your qualitative dissertation: A road map from beginning to end (4th ed.). Sage.

Read Chapter 8, Presenting Methodology and Research Approach.

This chapter section identifies the key components of a methodology chapter for a qualitative study, including ways to go about addressing issues of trustworthiness.

Access your Redshelf book in the Getting Started module of the course or click on Bookshelf in the top navigation bar of the course.

Conducting qualitative data analysis: Managing dynamic tensions within
Chenail, R. J. (2012). Conducting qualitative data analysis: Managing dynamic tensions within. Qualitative Report, 17(4), 1-6.
In this how-to essay, the author focuses on the trustworthiness criterion of credibility and explains how to achieve credibility concerning qualitative data analysis.
Creating protocols for trustworthiness in qualitative research
Amankwaa, L. (2016). Creating protocols for trustworthiness in qualitative research. Journal of Cultural Diversity, 23(3), 121–127.
In this article, the author describes trustworthiness as a measure of rigor and offers examples of trustworthiness protocols for dissertation research.

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

Creswell, J. W., & Poth, C. N. (2018). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches (4th ed.). Sage.

Read Chapter 10, Standards of Validation and Evaluation.

This chapter addresses two key interrelated questions that pertain to qualitative research: Is the researcher’s account trustworthy, and by whose standards is this assessed? And, how do you evaluate the quality of qualitative research? The authors delve into answering these questions from multiple design perspectives, highlighting the different stances of each of the research design’s underlying philosophy.

Access your Redshelf book in the Getting Started module of the course or click on Bookshelf in the top navigation bar of the course.

Quality of data analysis
Barbour, R. S. (2018). Quality of data analysis. In U. Flick (Ed.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative data collection. Sage.
In Chapter 34, the author discusses quality measures for qualitative data. The evaluation of trustworthiness is described.
Thematic analysis: Striving to meet the trustworthiness criteria
Nowell, L. S., Norris, J. M., & White, D. E. (2017). Thematic analysis: Striving to meet the trustworthiness criteria. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 16, 1–13.
The purpose of this article is to guide researchers using thematic analysis while exploring issues of rigor and trustworthiness. The process of conducting thematic analysis is illustrated through an audit trail as a guide to interpreting and representing research findings that will be considered trustworthy.
Trustworthiness
Frey, B. B. (Ed.). (2018). Trustworthiness. In The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation. Sage.
In this encyclopedia segment, the author defines trustworthiness as an assurance for quality, rigor, and credibility of qualitative research. The discussion addresses the paradigmatic debates over trustworthiness in qualitative research and explores the epistemological and ontological roots of trustworthiness.

In this webinar, the four criteria for the trustworthiness of qualitative data are defined and described.