This chapter reframes rigor and trustworthiness as ongoing commitments to transparency, reflexivity, and ethical responsibility. Readers learn practical strategies for enhancing credibility through triangulation, member checking, and dialogic validation, and for documenting analytic processes through audit trails and rich description. Ethical decision-making is presented as iterative and contextual, particularly when issues of identity, power, and representation arise. Through examples, the chapter models how self-study researchers can balance honesty with care, ensuring that their work remains both rigorous and ethically sound. By the end, readers gain a toolkit for conducting research that is accountable to participants, collaborators, and the wider scholarly community.

错误:搜索内容不能为空,请输入英文关键词
错误:关键词超出字数限制,请精简
高级检索

How Do I Demonstrate Rigor and Integrity in Self-Study Research?

  • Brandon M. Butler,
  • Kristen H. Gregory,
  • Mark M. Diacopoulos,
  • Angela P. Branyon

摘要

This chapter reframes rigor and trustworthiness as ongoing commitments to transparency, reflexivity, and ethical responsibility. Readers learn practical strategies for enhancing credibility through triangulation, member checking, and dialogic validation, and for documenting analytic processes through audit trails and rich description. Ethical decision-making is presented as iterative and contextual, particularly when issues of identity, power, and representation arise. Through examples, the chapter models how self-study researchers can balance honesty with care, ensuring that their work remains both rigorous and ethically sound. By the end, readers gain a toolkit for conducting research that is accountable to participants, collaborators, and the wider scholarly community.