1. An approach that utilizes multiple data sources (e.g., archival, interview, video), multiple _
2. A detailed description of a phenomenon that includes the researcher's interpretation in informants and multiple methods, in order to confirm or validate research findings. addition to the observed context and processes.
3. An assessment of the believability or credibility of the research findings from the perspective of the members or study participants.
4. The degree that findings can be transferred or generalized to other settings, contexts, or populations.
5. Pertains to the importance of the researcher accounting for or describing the changing contexts and circumstances that are fundamental to qualitative research.
6. An analogous to objectivity, that is, the extent to which a researcher is aware of or accounts for individual subjectivity or bias.
7. Refers to whether the outcomes observed in a study are due to the independent variables or experimental manipulations investigated in the study and not to some other factor or set of factors.
8. A validity wherein a research consumer should ask whether the findings apply to individuals whose place and circumstances differ from those of study participants.
9. Refers to the degree to which a variable, test, questionnaire, or instrument measure the theoretical concept that the researcher hopes to measure.
10. Consists of the researcher restating, summarizing, or paraphrasing the information received from a respondent to ensure that what was heard or written down is in fact correct.
11. A procedure whereby a researcher actively seeks accounts from other respondents that differ from the main or consensus accounts in critical ways.
12. Requires that research subjects are not coerced into participating in a study and requires the protection of research subjects who have diminished autonomy,
13. Requires that research does not harm research subjects, and that researchers minimize the risks for subjects while maximizing the benefits for them.
14. Requires that all forms of differential treatment among research subjects be justified.
15. An even stronger safeguard of participant privacy. If a researcher assures anonymity, it means that the researcher is unable to link participants' names to the information they provide.​