... observers/raters were trained to use a formal protocol and the variability of their performance was assessed and controlled: Internal Rigor: Essential. Qualitative Research only
http://www.ispi.org/awards/2007/ResearchEvaluation.doc

Management research, qualitative methods and rigor . Threats to the validity and value of qualitative methods within management research arise throughout the entire process of ...
http://www.colmr.research.med.va.gov/resources/bibliography/mittman-rev.doc

It's often easier to get quantitative research published, perhaps because it has an air of rigor that qualitative research cannot match. An unscientific sample of the research papers ...
http://www.smartgrowth.umd.edu/pdf/Research_Oct07.pdf

The intention of this paper is to encourage debate, and make some proposals, about what might reliably constitute scientific rigor in qualitative research.
http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/OJS/cca/index.php/cca/article/view/4164

... Political Science, Sociology, and Law and Social Sciences for rigor in qualitative methods ... What single advance in qualitative research methods or approach would contribute most to ...
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/nsfqual/mission.htm

To judge the methodological rigor of qualitative research, Giacomini and Cook suggest that you need to evalute the study's design and the researchers' approach to analysis.
http://www.qualres.org/HomeGiac-3679.html

Rigor in qualitative research: the assessment of trustworthiness. Am J Occup Ther. 1991;45(3):214?222. Kuzel AJ, Engel JD, Addison RB, Bogdewic SP.
http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/6/4/331

Social Work has published qualitative research on various issues (and in my view of varying rigor), Affilia does as well on issues of importance to women,
http://sophia.smith.edu/~jdrisko/qualres.htm

In this article, we argue that reliability and validity remain appropriate concepts for attaining rigor in qualitative research. We argue that qualitative researchers should reclaim ...
http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/1_2Final/pdf/morseetal.pdf

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 8, No. 4, 556-562 (1998) DOI: 10.1177/104973239800800409 Analyzing Data: Maintaining Rigor in a Qualitative Study
http://qhr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/4/556

To judge the methodologic rigor of qualitative research reports, readers need to critically appraise the study design and analysis. This appraisal should examine whether the ...
http://www.cche.net/usersguides/qualitative.asp

Users and communities with files or folders in category 'Research Rigor' ... Qualitative Research Methods - IS366a Fall 2008. Syndication. RSS feed for this tag
http://conversation.cgu.edu/tag/Research+Rigor

Title: Rigor in grounded theory research - an interpretive perspective on generating theory from qualitative field studies: Authors: Gasson, Susan
http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/1985

The symposium was well-attended, indicating that people are very interested in learning more about the foundations of the methodology and the rigor of qualitative research ...
http://technology-escapades.net/blog/?cat=11

OMNI has developed a variety of resources to promote rigor and enhance the validity of qualitative research, including the following: Toolkit for Conducting Focus Groups; Site Visit ...
http://www.omni.org/qualitative.aspx

Either alone or in combination, qualitative research must be conducted with methodological rigor. This section does not attempt to provide a primer on qualitative methods.
http://www.mdrc.research.med.va.gov/mgt_research/testing.htm

In qualitative research the rigor of the study is equally important but different procedures are used to assess it. Lincoln and Guba (1985) provide definitions of five key ...
http://www.nasponline.org/publications/cq/cq345research.aspx

The symposium was well-attended, indicating that people are very interested in learning more about the foundations of the methodology and the rigor of qualitative research ...
http://technology-escapades.net/blog/?p=30

And this had been a major criticism of human science research and qualitative methods: it lacks rigor and therefore is open to bias.
http://clem.mscd.edu/~davisj/prm2/qual2.html

Software to support qualitative research is both revered and reviled. Over the last few decades, users and skeptics have made competing claims about the utility, usability and ...
http://mra.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/vol/2/issue/1/article/2282/rigor-and-flexibility-in-computerbased

coded and effectively retrieved (Kelle 1997a; Wolfe, Gephart & Johnson 1993). The research routine is substantially altered. In the best cases, more intellectual energy is directed ...
http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/IJMRA_2-1_pp.105-117.pdf

Rigor in Qual Research; Inter-Rater Reliability; Researcher ... Of particular note is the extensive Bibliography of qualitative research resources
http://kerlins.net/bobbi/research/qualresearch/

Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research 2007, Vol. 2, 1-5 ISSN: 1935-3308 Where Rigor Becomes Rigor Mortis: Institutional Review Boards and Qualitative Research James D.
http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/education/eqrc/journal/vol2issue1abstract.pdf

... sampling, scientific uses, scientific rigor necessary to strengthen validity, reliability, and objectivity, or the analysis techniques for focus groups as qualitative research.
http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/meetings/2002/1153.htm

Emden C. and Hancock H. University of South Australia, Australia. Introduction: Scientific rigor is widely regarded as being exemplified by the Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT ...
http://www.cochrane.org/colloquia/abstracts/adelaide/ADELO218.htm

Either alone or in combination, qualitative research must be conducted with methodological rigor. This section does not attempt to provide a primer on qualitative methods.
http://www.colmr.research.med.va.gov/mgmt_research_in_va/methodology/qualitative_research.cfm

Rigor in qualitative research: The assessment of trustworthiness. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45 (3), 214-222. Characteristics of Qualitative and Quantitative ...
http://www.okstate.edu/ag/agedcm4h/academic/aged5980a/5980/newpage21.htm

The problem of rigor in qualitative research. Advances in Nursing Science, 8 (3), 27-37. Silva, M., & Rothbart, D. (1984). An analysis of changing trends in philosophies of ...
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR4-3/myers.html

RIGOR IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH. Beck, C.T. (1993). Qualitative research: the evaluation of its credibility, fittingness, and ...
http://kerlins.net/bobbi/research/qualresearch/bibliography/rigor.html