Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 1305-2020 Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Validity and Reliability In Qualitative Research: A Theoretical Analysis Nitel Araştırmada Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik: Kuramsal Bir İnceleme https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4713-8643 Arastaman Gökhan HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9177-2038 Öztürk Fidan İnci ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EĞİTİM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ Fidan Tuncer MEHMET AKİF ERSOY ÜNİVERSİTESİ 11 29 2018 15 1 37 75 10 27 2017 12 28 2017 Copyright © 2004, Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 2004 Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

The purpose of this study is to examine the debatesabout the validity and reliability criteria that are frequently addressed inthe qualitative research tradition. Forthis purpose, concerns about validity and reliability issue have been analyzedin detail based on epistemological and theoretical conceptualizations. As aresult of the analysis, it is seen that the issue of validity and reliabilityis important and researchers propose various conceptual and theoreticalapproaches to the subject. In addition to the views suggestingthat these propositions regarding validity and reliability issue can be definedin various ways and function differently based on epistemological andtheoretical differences. It is also seen thatthere are views emphasizing that the quality of each study should be assessedseparately with a more rhetorical approach because it refuses to havepre-determined criteria in qualitative researches. Based on this analysis, thegeneral conclusion that measuring the quality of qualitative studies is acontroversial issue and there is no single way to measure quality has beenobtained.

Bu çalışmanın amacı, nitel araştırma geleneği içinde son dönemlerdesıklıkla ele alınan geçerlik ve güvenirlik ölçütlerine ilişkin tartışmalarıincelemektir. Bu amaçla geçerlik ve güvenirlik sorunsalına ilişkin endişeler,konuyla ilgili epistemolojik ve kuramsal kavramsallaştırmalara dayalı olarakayrıntılı bir şekilde çözümlenmeye çalışılmıştır. Çözümlemeler sonucunda geçerlik ve güvenirlik konusunun son yıllarda giderekönem kazanmaya başladığı ve araştırmacıların konuya yönelik çeşitli yaklaşımlarönerdikleri görülmüştür. Bu önermelerde geçerlikve güvenirliğin çeşitli şekillerde tanımlanabileceğini ve epistemolojik ve kuramsalfarklılıklara dayalı olarak farklı şekilde işlev görebileceğini ortaya koyangörüşlerin yanında, nitel araştırmalarda önceden belirlenmiş ölçütlerinolmasını reddeden, dolayısı ile daha retorik bir yaklaşımla her çalışmanınniteliğinin ayrı değerlendirilmesi gerektiğini vurgulayan görüşlerin olduğu dagörülmektedir. Bu çözümlemeye dayalı olarak nitel çalışmalarda geçerlik ve güvenirlikkavramlarının tartışmalı bir konu olduğu ve nitel çalışmaların niteliğiniölçmek için tek bir yolun olmadığı genel sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. 

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