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12/15/2023

WHAT IS A CORRECT
RESEARCH METHOD?
LECTURE NO. 10 There is no such thing as the correct
method, or even the best method for
VALIDITY AND addressing a particular research issue. A
common response to the inevitable
RELIABILITY OF A
shortcomings of any particular method is
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH to employ two or more methods to a same
research problem (Brown 1998: 8)

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ENHANCING VALIDITY AND


RESEARCH RELIABILITY
RELIABILITY MEANS
Reliability focuses on possible errors • Choosing the right research strategy
• Selecting the right sample or case/cases
TO WHAT EXTENT WILL THE ‘TOOL’ • Deciding on relevant sources of data
PRODUCE THE SAME RESULTS WHEN • Applying reliable data collection and
USED BY DIFFERENT RESEARCHER analysis ‘tools’
• TRIANGULATION: Using different kinds
of techniques/tools in data collection and
analysis
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VALIDITY ON A SELECTED
VALIDITY IN RESEARCH
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
• VALIDITY: The extent of accuracy of the Mosha (2005: 49) concluded his chapter on
research Research methodology as follows:
“The validity of this research is rooted in the
careful and thoughtful design of its
– Appropriateness of data collected methodological framework. The choice of
– Truth to the researched issue in relation to the case-study method has proved to be suitable
context, people and actions as it facilitated an empirical fieldwork,
resulting in detailed account of the different
aspects that the study set out to be
investigated”.
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ENHANCING RESEARCH FEEDBACK AS MEANS OF


VALIDITY RESEARCH RELIABILITY
The following questions are relevant Feedback in a research is meant to expose
• Is the researcher using the right variables draft reports to respondents so that
(indicators)? incorrect issues may be corrected and to
• Is the researcher using the right ‘tools’? be resolve areas of disagreement.
• Is the research issue correctly addressed? Feedback gives respondents an
• Does the ‘tool’ collects what is intended to opportunity to collaborate in publishing the
be found out? final report (Lerise 1996: 21, In: Mosha
• What is the extent of subjectivity or bias 2005:46)
in the data collection
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THE POWER OF
GENERALIZATION
Groat (2002: 356) is asking: how many
cases or methods are enough to be able
to generalize? END OF LECTURE NO. 10

To be able to generalize research findings to


wider ranges, the case study method is THANK YOU
supplemented by quantitative and
qualitative methods (Mosha 2005: 30).

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