Credibility and Trustworthiness
What are the advantages of the strategies? Are there any risks involved with this strategy? If so, describe the risk(s). How do these strategies provide strength to a study?
Textbook Reading
Fundamentals of Education Research (McMillan, 2015)
• Chapter 11: Qualitative Research Design
• Chapter 12: Qualitative Data Collection, Analysis, and Credibility
• Chapter 5: Participants and Sampling
Understanding Education Research: A Guide to Critical Reading (Shank, Brown, & Pringle, 2018)
• Chapter 3: Basic Approaches in Educational Research, pages 19-26 only
o Review this chapter. This is a quick, easy overview of the use of educational statistics in research.
• Chapter 11: Understanding Qualitative Results and Findings
o Skim this chapter, which will help you with the article critique assignment for this week.
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o Understanding and Validity in Qualitative Research (Maxwell, 1992) [Web page]
o Teachers as Architects of Transformation: The Change Process of an Elementary School Teacher in a Practitioner Research Group (Vetter, 2012) [Web page]