Summary
Contents
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Quality underpins the success (or failure) of any piece of qualitative research. In this book, Uwe Flick takes you through the steps in method and design to ensure quality and reliability throughout the entire research process. Showing hands-on what it means to ‘manage’ quality, this book puts the spotlight on practical questions and steps researchers can use to continually interrogate, improve and demonstrate quality in your research.
How to Manage and Assess the Quality of Qualitative Research
How to Manage and Assess the Quality of Qualitative Research
Chapter objectives
After reading this chapter, you should:
- see the relevance of the issue of quality for the further development and establishment of qualitative research;
- have an impression of the angles and levels at which this issue becomes relevant; and
- have an overview of the following chapters and of how they address the issue.
The relevance of quality issues in qualitative research
Qualitative research has come of age. The growing number of textbooks, journals, other publications and the extension of research practice across several disciplines demonstrate this. Perhaps another indicator of this development, or a need resulting from it, is the current relevance of the question of how to evaluate qualitative research, the plans, the methods and the results ...
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