From Rigour to Trustworthiness: Validating Mixed Methods

Mixed Methods Research for Nursing and the Health Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 119-134

  Giddings, Lynne S ^a   Grant, Barbara M ^b  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

'Methodology' and 'methods'; Complexity in validating mixed methods and validation in mixed methods research; Ensuring quality of mixed methods research; From rigour to trustworthiness; Goal of measurement validity consistent and reliable measuring; Positivist postpositivist paradigm and interpretivist, poststructural postmodern paradigms; Positivist postpositivist validation strategies; Research validation and scientific standards of rigour; Shifting meanings of rigour research validation shifting depending on research paradigm used; Trustworthiness of researcher self reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859756581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444316490.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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