Evaluating Qualitative Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeasik Cho
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Grant Proposals

This book provides the qualitative research community with some insight on how to evaluate the quality of qualitative research. This topic has gained little attention during the past few decades. We, qualitative researchers, read journal articles, serve on masters’ and doctoral committees, and also make decisions on whether conference proposals, manuscripts, or large-scale grant proposals should be accepted or rejected. It is assumed that various perspectives or criteria, depending on various paradigms, theories, or fields of discipline, have been used in assessing the quality of qualitative research. Nonetheless, until now, no textbook has been specifically devoted to exploring theories, practices, and reflections associated with the evaluation of qualitative research. This book constructs a typology of evaluating qualitative research, examines actual information from websites and qualitative journal editors, and reflects on some challenges that are currently encountered by the qualitative research community. Many different kinds of journals’ review guidelines and available assessment tools are collected and analyzed. Consequently, core criteria that stand out among these evaluation tools are presented. Readers are invited to join the author to confidently proclaim: “Fortunately, there are commonly agreed, bold standards for evaluating the goodness of qualitative research in the academic research community. These standards are a part of what is generally called ‘scientific research.’ ”

Getting out of the Field

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeasik Cho
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Community

This chapter provides a review of the book, which explores how to conceptually understand and practically evaluate the quality of qualitative research. Despite the fact that there are few scholarly pieces regarding qualitative research, the depth and creativity that the pioneering researchers have demonstrated are profound, and the extent to which they cover not only the broad quality of qualitative research but also most of the specific qualities expected by many different kinds of qualitative research is incredible. This chapter summarizes the major topics of this book. Final remarks on this exciting, creative, but difficult topic are preceded by the following summary: Fortunately, There are commonly agreed, bold standards for evaluating the goodness of qualitative research in the academic research community. These standards are a part of what is generally called “scientific research.”

Comment on a Standard Definition of Response Rates

1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Wiseman ◽  
Maryann Billington
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Standard Definition ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
Definition Of

The lack of a standard definition of response rates in surveys has resulted in problems in the marketing research community, including ambiguity in pricing and evaluating research proposals and in assessing the quality of data used in industry reports and journal articles. This comment highlights the work of an industry task force which has considered the implications of different definitions and proposed an industry standard.

Genetic maps of the proximal half of chromosome arm 2L of Drosophila melanogaster

Genome ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Glen Levine ◽  
Suchot Sunday ◽  
Ruth E. Dörig ◽  
Beat Suter ◽  
Paul Lasko
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Genetic Maps ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Proximal Half ◽  
Chromosome Arm ◽  
Physiologic Function ◽  
Complementation Groups

Drosophila mutants have played an important role in elucidating the physiologic function of genes. Large-scale projects have succeeded in producing mutations in a large proportion of Drosophila genes. Many mutant fly lines have also been produced through the efforts of individual laboratories over the past century. In an effort to make some of these mutants more useful to the research community, we systematically mapped a large number of mutations affecting genes in the proximal half of chromosome arm 2L to more precisely defined regions, defined by deficiency intervals, and, when possible, by individual complementation groups. To further analyze regions 36 and 39–40, we produced 11 new deficiencies with gamma irradiation, and we constructed 6 new deficiencies in region 30–33, using the DrosDel system. trans-heterozygous combinations of deficiencies revealed 5 additional functions, essential for viability or fertility.

Time Orientation: Past, Present, and Future Perceptions

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1199-1205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard A. Jason ◽  
Jennifer Schade ◽  
Louise Furo ◽  
Arne Reichler ◽  
Clifford Brickman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Future Expectations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Perceptions ◽  
Better Than

A survey was conducted to assess people's time orientation or where they spend most of their thinking time: past, present or future. 100 women were also asked about their expectations for the quality of life in 20 co 30 yr. and about the odds of a large-scale nuclear war within 30 yr. Respondents thought almost twice as much about the present and future as the past. They rated the quality of life in 20 to 30 yr. as being the same as or slightly better than now. A nuclear war within 30 yr. was considered possible; religious orientation had a strong effect. No significant relationship was found between time orientation and future expectations.

scholarly journals Language Quality in Scientific Journals: Whose Responsibility?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
Marcin Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Language Quality

Abstract Is it journal editors’ role to decide whether the language of the manuscripts submitted to their journals is fine? Among so many duties they have, this one seems to be all-too-often forgotten, or ignored, affecting the quality of scientific publications. Their indifference can also lead to unnecessary arguments between authors and reviewers, or to situations in which the authors have no idea what to do. Left alone, authors seldom win, even if they are right. This paper discusses whose role it is to keep writing quality of journal articles.

scholarly journals Criteria for Good Qualitative Research: A Comprehensive Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drishti Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Good Research ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThis review aims to synthesize a published set of evaluative criteria for good qualitative research. The aim is to shed light on existing standards for assessing the rigor of qualitative research encompassing a range of epistemological and ontological standpoints. Using a systematic search strategy, published journal articles that deliberate criteria for rigorous research were identified. Then, references of relevant articles were surveyed to find noteworthy, distinct, and well-defined pointers to good qualitative research. This review presents an investigative assessment of the pivotal features in qualitative research that can permit the readers to pass judgment on its quality and to condemn it as good research when objectively and adequately utilized. Overall, this review underlines the crux of qualitative research and accentuates the necessity to evaluate such research by the very tenets of its being. It also offers some prospects and recommendations to improve the quality of qualitative research. Based on the findings of this review, it is concluded that quality criteria are the aftereffect of socio-institutional procedures and existing paradigmatic conducts. Owing to the paradigmatic diversity of qualitative research, a single and specific set of quality criteria is neither feasible nor anticipated. Since qualitative research is not a cohesive discipline, researchers need to educate and familiarize themselves with applicable norms and decisive factors to evaluate qualitative research from within its theoretical and methodological framework of origin.

scholarly journals Clinical implications of lumbar developmental spinal stenosis on back pain, radicular leg pain, and disability

2021 ◽  
Vol 103-B (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Marcus Kin Long Lai ◽  
Prudence Wing Hang Cheung ◽  
Dino Samartzis ◽  
Jaro Karppinen ◽  
Kenneth Man Chee Cheung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Spinal Stenosis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Leg Pain ◽  
Decompression Surgery ◽  
Study Cohort ◽  
The Past ◽  
Canal Diameter

Aims To study the associations of lumbar developmental spinal stenosis (DSS) with low back pain (LBP), radicular leg pain, and disability. Methods This was a cross-sectional study of 2,206 subjects along with L1-S1 axial and sagittal MRI. Clinical and radiological information regarding their demographics, workload, smoking habits, anteroposterior (AP) vertebral canal diameter, spondylolisthesis, and MRI changes were evaluated. Mann-Whitney U tests and chi-squared tests were conducted to search for differences between subjects with and without DSS. Associations of LBP and radicular pain reported within one month (30 days) and one year (365 days) of the MRI, with clinical and radiological information, were also investigated by utilizing univariate and multivariate logistic regressions. Results Subjects with DSS had higher prevalence of radicular leg pain, more pain-related disability, and lower quality of life (all p < 0.05). Subjects with DSS had 1.5 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.0 to 2.1; p = 0.027) and 1.8 (95% CI 1.3 to 2.6; p = 0.001) times higher odds of having radicular leg pain in the past month and the past year, respectively. However, DSS was not associated with LBP. Although, subjects with a spondylolisthesis had 1.7 (95% CI 1.1 to 2.5; p = 0.011) and 2.0 (95% CI 1.2 to 3.2; p = 0.008) times greater odds to experience LBP in the past month and the past year, respectively. Conclusion This large-scale study identified DSS as a risk factor of acute and chronic radicular leg pain. DSS was seen in 6.9% of the study cohort and these patients had narrower spinal canals. Subjects with DSS had earlier onset of symptoms, more severe radicular leg pain, which lasted for longer and were more likely to have worse disability and poorer quality of life. In these patients there is an increased likelihood of nerve root compression due to a pre-existing narrowed canal, which is important when planning surgery as patients are likely to require multi-level decompression surgery. Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2021;103-B(1):131–140.

Characteristics of the audit services market in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
YULIA ARTEMOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Audit Services Market

The article examines the state of the audit services market in Russia over the past three years. The author highlights the most important and relevant problems, such as dumping, the unattractive nature of the profession itself, the insufficient level of quality of service provision, and a decrease in income. The work reflects the factors that have the greatest impact on the activities of audit organizations, examines the possibilities for solving existing problems, and proposes measures to improve regulation in this area. In Russia, the market for audit services tends to enlarge its participants. Small companies face a choice when they must either join big enterprises or leave the market. The number of audit organizations and certified auditors is constantly declining. Since organizations limit their audit costs, audit companies reduce the cost of services they provide to retain their clients or acquire new ones. Currently, such price dumping is becoming large-scale. Another problem is the decline in the prestige of the profession. The lack of prospects in this area directly affects the decrease in the number of qualified specialists in the audit services market. Low demand for services has the greatest impact on audit organizations and individual auditors.

scholarly journals RESEARCH ON QUALITY SUPERVISION AND SPOT CHECKS TECHNOLOGY FOR NATIONWIDE LARGE-SCALE TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS IN CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-1/W2 ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
W. Ma ◽  
Y. Zhao ◽  
P. Zhang ◽  
S. Dong ◽  
F. Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Index System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Topographic Maps ◽  
Inspection System ◽  
Operational Mode ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mode Of Production

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Large-scale Topographic Maps (LST-Maps) play an important role in China, so their quality is of great importance. In order to guarantee the quality of the survey and mapping achievements, China has been implementing a supervision and inspection system. There are relatively big differences in the content, mode of production and demands for application of the LST-Maps all over the country, making it difficult for current informatization level of supervision and traditional methods of quality control to become fair and efficient. The existing operational mode, sampling means, and technical standards of inspection applied in supervision are not entirely suitable for the needs in quality supervision and inspection of LST-Maps. In face of the abovementioned contradictions and problems, the research has combined the requirements of quality supervision and spot checks of all levels. Various achievements such as an index system, technical means, inspection procedures and a software platform have been created, and they are widely used in the quality supervision and spot checks of national and provincial LST-Maps over the past three years.</p>

scholarly journals Computer aspect of interdisciplinary research in philosophy of education and computer science

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 01029
Author(s):  
Julia Petrova ◽  
Olga Vasichkina
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Evolution Of Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Almost All

A large-scale global study of events both within and between disciplines provides strong evidence that leading thinkers have begun to introduce new ways of thinking to the point that most academic disciplines have undergone major paradigm changes throughout the twentieth century, according to Guidley. Increasingly, over the past forty years, we can see significant changes, if not in all, then in the main scientific disciplines. New ways of thinking have appeared in almost all disciplines. With the help of interdisciplinary approaches, a movement has emerged to integrate knowledge, moving beyond the fragmentation of knowledge related to disciplinary specialization. Computer technologies and computer concepts have penetrated almost all areas of academic research. These events can be considered as the implementation of new ways of thinking and new models of knowledge, respectively, and may be edges of the evolution of consciousness, in which computer technologies occupy a significant place. Education and communication in the age of globalization and computerization are an obvious necessity for the continued existence of society.

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