{"id":977,"date":"2015-05-01T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T11:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=977"},"modified":"2015-05-01T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T11:59:37","slug":"qualitative-data-triangulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Qualitative Data – Triangulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Triangulation is the method of viewing things from more than one perspective (Denscombe, 2010) and can help cross checking of more than one source of data in a study (Bryman, 2012; Bell, 2010). Triangulation takes multiple sources of information and maps one one set of data onto another to give a more comprehensive, accurate representation of the data; it lets the research take different contexts and constructed them into one (Silverman, 2011).<\/p>\n

I used triangulation to identify common themes from the survey, new entrants, managers and what is on the current induction course. I looked at the themes that were emerging in each area through coding<\/a> and link them together. This assisted in the design of the module as I could justify what to include, giving validity to the choices I made (Barbour, 2007). For example one area that came out of all data was information on European Institutions and how the Department interacts with them.<\/p>\n

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References<\/h1>\n

Barbour R. (2007), Doing Focus Groups, SAGE, London<\/p>\n

Bell J., (2010), Doing your research project: a guide for first-time researchers in education, health and social science 5th Edition<\/em>, Open University Press, Maidenhead.<\/p>\n

Bryman, A. (2012),\u00a0Social research methods.\u00a0 <\/em>4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Denscombe M., (2010), Title The good research guide: for small-scale social research projects 4th Edition<\/em>, Maidenhead, Open University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

Silverman D., (2011), Interpreting Qualitative Data\u00a0\u2013 4th Edition<\/em>, Sage, London.<\/p>\n

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Triangulation is the method of viewing things from more than one perspective (Denscombe, 2010) and can help cross checking of more than one source of data in a study (Bryman, 2012; Bell, 2010). Triangulation takes multiple sources of information and maps one one set of data onto another to give a more comprehensive, accurate representation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lit-review","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}