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The document discusses the importance of establishing trustworthiness in qualitative research data through credibility, dependability, transferability, and confirmability. Credibility ensures the data is believable and approved by participants. Dependability aims to establish consistency in processes and products like credibility establishes validity. Transferability allows conclusions to potentially apply to other contexts, while confirmability demonstrates results are due to research methods not researcher bias.

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The document discusses the importance of establishing trustworthiness in qualitative research data through credibility, dependability, transferability, and confirmability. Credibility ensures the data is believable and approved by participants. Dependability aims to establish consistency in processes and products like credibility establishes validity. Transferability allows conclusions to potentially apply to other contexts, while confirmability demonstrates results are due to research methods not researcher bias.

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Establishing Trustworthiness of Data

The trustworthiness of a researcher's data is defined as their believability. Trust is a


basic feature of all social situations that demand cooperation and interdependence
(George and Swap, 1982). Trustworthiness is one-way researchers can persuade
themselves and readers that their research findings are worthy of attention (Lincoln &
Guba, 1985).
Qualitative researchers must demonstrate that data analysis has been conducted in a
precise, consistent, and exhaustive manner through recording, systematizing and
disclosing the methods of analysis with enough detail to enable the reader to determine
whether the process is credible. (Nowel et al., 2017). Qualitative researchers must
establish four aspects of trustworthiness: credibility, dependability, transferability, and
confirmability.
Credibility
The credibility standard requires a qualitative study to be believable to critical readers
and to be approved by the persons who provided the information gathered during the
study. It may be used to enhance the credibility of their research: prolonged
engagement, persistent observation, triangulation, peer debriefing, negative case
analysis, progressive subjectivity checks, and member checking. Guba and Lincoln
(1989) claimed that the credibility of a study is determined when researchers or readers
are confronted with the experience, they can recognize it. Credibility addresses the “fit”
between respondents’ views and the researcher’s representation of them (Tobin &
Begley, 2004).
Dependability
Many qualitative researchers believe that if credibility has been demonstrated, it is not
necessary to also and separately demonstrate dependability. However, if a researcher
permits parsing of the terms, then credibility seems more related to validity, and
dependability seems more related to reliability. (Devault, 2019) Dependability aims to
replace reliability, which requires that when replicating experiments, the same results
should be achieved. As this would not be expected to happen in a qualitative setting,
alternative criteria are general understandability, flow of arguments, and logic. Both the
process and the product of the research need to be consistent (Lincoln & Guba, 1985).
Transferability
Transferability refers to the generalizability of inquiry. In qualitative research, this
concerns only case-to-case transfer (Tobin & Begley, 2004). Transferability in
qualitative research is synonymous with generalizability, or external validity, in
quantitative research. Showing readers how the research study's conclusions may be
applied to multiple locations, circumstances, times, and persons establishes
transferability. It's important to remember that the researcher can't guarantee that the
research study's findings will be helpful. Instead, it is our role as researchers to provide
evidence that it may be applicable.
Confirmability
Qualitative research can be conducted to replicate earlier work, and when that is the
goal, it is important for the data categories to be made internally consistent. According
to the book entitled “Naturalistic Inquiry” in 1985 by Lincoln and Guba, the researchers
must devise rules that describe category properties and that can, ultimately, be used to
justify the inclusion of each data bit that remains assigned to the category as well as to
provide a basis for later tests of replicability. It's important for other researchers to be
able to replicate the results to show that those results are a product of independent
research methods and not of conscious or unconscious bias. (Devault, 2019)

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