Techniques to establish validity of qualitative data (p 182-184)
1. Check accuracy in recording/coding
2. Repeated observations
3. Member check
4. Triangulation
a. Data
b. Methodological
c. Investigator
d. Theory
5. Peer debrief
6. Audit trail
7. Pilot testing
8. Rival explanations (reorganize data)
9. Negative cases
Keep in Mind (p 207)
Chapter 7: Data Collection Methods
Figure 7.1 – Data Collection Methods in Ascending Order of Intrusiveness (p 211-212)
Considerations for choosing data collection methods:
- Evaluation key questions
- Evaluator and evaluation team skills
- Resources
- Stakeholders’ preferred types of data
- Level of acceptable intrusiveness
- Cultural considerations
- Instrument validity
- Reliability: consistency of items within instrument AND data collected using instrument over time
- Availability of data
- Timelines
- Objectivity
- Figure 7.2 (p224) Types of Measurement Bias
- Degree of desired structure
- Figure 7.3 (p226) Questions to consider when choosing data collection methods
Article: Collecting Evaluation Data
METHOD FOLLOWS PURPOSE! In other words, the evaluation purpose influences the method.
This is Human Resource Development; Evaluation in Organization
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