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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University Unit-25: Validity and Reliability in Qualitative Research

Unit-25: Validity and Reliability in Qualitative Research notes

CoNteNts
objectives
introduction
25.1 subject-Matter
25.2 summary
25.3 Keywords

25.4 review Questions
25.5 further readings

objectives

After studying this unit students will be able to:
y situation of validity in Qualitative research
y situation of reliability in Qualitative research.

introduction

sometime based on our earlier knowledge and experience, we do something else instead of what actually
we should have done. Because of this there arises invalidity in research. sometime researcher behave
in a biased manner, due to this there arises a problem of validity and reliability in the study.

25.1 subject-Matter

in qualitative research such as inspection the situation of validity and reliability is not much stringent
because such problems are associated with the study of social incidents-
1. observation plan—To make inspection more valid the researcher should first prepare a plan for
inspection and thereafter start the inspection work. the researcher should decide all the points in
his inspection plan, for example, which facts need to be inspected and by what technique. Also, the
incident should be divided into various aspects and their study must be conducted by experiment
proof technique. if inspection is conducted in such a way then indeed it will be more fruitful.
2. Use of Schedules—if the researcher uses sources such as schedules for conducting inspection then
the inspection would be more valid and reliable. for inspection work the schedule used is different
from the ordinary schedule. In this schedules there is an empty table. The inspector fills the information
in this table. in this schedule only one thing needs to be kept in mind that the inspection plan should
be such that it is capable of gathering the complete information of the related topic. that is why the
information collected is fully classified and the various tables are made such that it is easy to analyse
the information collected before and after.

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