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FRHD3070 FINAL EXAM Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question: what is high quality quantitative study ?
Ans✅ ✅: qualitative researchers have a wide variety of ways of thinking about
quality
- trustworthiness is a common way to look at quality
- how the researcher thinks about quality may depends on the epistemology, ontology
or methodology of the study
Question: what are the four criteria of trustworthiness ?
Ans✅ ✅: credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability
Question: what is credibility in terms of trustworthiness ?
Ans✅ ✅: do the results ring true for the participants (can be hard to do)
checking the results with the research participants or triangulation (checking other
data sources)
may also be called respondent validation, member validation or member checking
Question: what is transferability in terms of trustworthiness ?
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Ans✅ ✅: can the findings apply to other contexts
ruch description of experiences helps researchers to understand if there may be
transferability to other contexts
critique : transferability is commonly NOT a goal of qualitative research
Question: what is dependability in terms of trustworthiness ?
Ans✅ ✅: would other researchers doing the same thing get the same results
rigorous recording of data collection, analysis and the decisions made
an audit trail can be used (not common)
having more than one researcher to code or analyse the data helps
Question: what is confirmability in terms of trustworthiness ?
Ans✅ ✅: would two researchers agree about the interpretations and meanings
created
methods can be thoroughly described
researcher reflexivity: what are their biases, values and assumptions
FRHD3070 FINAL EXAM Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question: what is high quality quantitative study ?
Ans✅ ✅: qualitative researchers have a wide variety of ways of thinking about
quality
- trustworthiness is a common way to look at quality
- how the researcher thinks about quality may depends on the epistemology, ontology
or methodology of the study
Question: what are the four criteria of trustworthiness ?
Ans✅ ✅: credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability
Question: what is credibility in terms of trustworthiness ?
Ans✅ ✅: do the results ring true for the participants (can be hard to do)
checking the results with the research participants or triangulation (checking other
data sources)
may also be called respondent validation, member validation or member checking
Question: what is transferability in terms of trustworthiness ?
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Ans✅ ✅: can the findings apply to other contexts
ruch description of experiences helps researchers to understand if there may be
transferability to other contexts
critique : transferability is commonly NOT a goal of qualitative research
Question: what is dependability in terms of trustworthiness ?
Ans✅ ✅: would other researchers doing the same thing get the same results
rigorous recording of data collection, analysis and the decisions made
an audit trail can be used (not common)
having more than one researcher to code or analyse the data helps
Question: what is confirmability in terms of trustworthiness ?
Ans✅ ✅: would two researchers agree about the interpretations and meanings
created
methods can be thoroughly described
researcher reflexivity: what are their biases, values and assumptions