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Jaqui, try looking at Licoln and Guba (1985) Naturalistic Inquiry. Specifically looking at the chapter on enhancing trustworthiness in qualitative resarch. Also a specific paper examining methods of enhancing truthfulness in grounded theory qual research is Slevin & Sines (99) Nurse Researcher 7(2) p.79-97. Happy hunting! Rach On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:45:41 -0500 Jacquie Fraser <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm about to teach an evaluation course in public health. When I taught the > course before we looked exclusively at quantitative research and used threats to > internal validity as the main basis of determining 'success' of a program. This > time I would like to include evaluation of qualitative research but I'm not sure > just how to go about it or maybe even if I'm asking the right questions. Is > 'success' in qualitative research primarily about theory generation? Is it > about two or more researchers looking at the same transcripts and pulling out > the same themes? Am I really trying to get at apples and oranges here, > quantitative evaluation measuring program success in terms (for public health) > of behaviour change, qualitative research looking at data-gathering to enhance > program design and/or implementation but not program outcomes? > > I may be just getting to a place of thinking about this that many of you have > been for awhile now so I would appreciate your thoughts on this or ways to > decipher my, as yet, fuzzy thinking. > > Books that I've examined so far do not explicitly address evaluation of > qualitative research (some have discussed using qualitative methods to enhance > quantitative methods of assessment) so any resources would also be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Jacquie Fraser, PhD > Department of Health Science > Armstrong Atlantic State University > Savannah, Georgia USA ---------------------------------------- Hopkin, Rachel2 Email: [log in to unmask] "University of the West of England"