EVALUATIVE CRITERIA AND EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES 99
Dependability
Dependability
Criticality
- Dependability
- Dependability
Checking out rival
- Unique impressions
audit
audit
explanations
- Reexamine taken
- Reflexive journal
- Reflexive journal
for granted
Replicating findings
assumptions
Confirmability
Confirmability
- Analysis of both
- Conformability
- Confirmability
Weighing the
front stage and back
audit
audit
evidence
stage
- Reflexive journal
- Reflexive journal
Using extreme cases
1 Erlandson et al. (1993) replicate almost all of the Lincoln and Guba (1985) techniques but neglect to mention their deletion of
negative case analysis as
a technique for verifying “credibility.”
2 Miles and Huberman (1994) use the term “tactics” rather than “techniques.” 3 Some of these terms are treated by authors as criteria, others as techniques, the confusion noted in the text.