Qualitative Research Trustworthiness

Qualitative research has similar practices to the Validity and Reliability of quantitative methods; they're classified as Trustworthiness.

Gaining Trustworthiness:

• Credibility:
• Activities increasing the probability that credible findings will be produced
• Prolonged engagement
• Persistent observation
• Triangulation
• Peer debriefing
• Keeps the researcher "honest"
• Test working hypotheses
• Opportunity to develop and test next steps in methodology
• Catharsis to provide objective judgment
• Negative Case Analysis - adjusting and testing the hypothesis with hindsight
• Referential adequacy - recording materials
• Member Checks - testing data, analytic categories, interpretations, and conclusions with participants
• Transferability
• Thick description
• Dependbility
• Dependability audit
• Confirmability
• Confirmability audit
• All of the above
• Reflexive journal

All of this information comes from   Lincoln, Y. S. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry (Vol. 75). Sage.