Principles of rigor for assessing evidence in “qualitative”; communication research

Managerial Emotionality in Chinese Factories

“…Following Tompkins (1994), information was provided that could be used to verify the sources of our data. Respondents were assigned a letter depending on whether they were members of the first (A) or second (B) trade delegation.…”

Democracy, Dialogue, and Education: An Exploration of Conflict Resolution at Jefferson Junior High

“…Throughout fieldwork, the first author conducted informal member-checking sessions with various participants to gauge their perceptions of emergent themes. On numerous occasions, the first author engaged in ''playback conversations'' (see Tompkins, 1994) with both students and teachers through which she shared what she was observing and interpreting. These informal conversations cued her to pay attention to other patterns and helped to clarify and to deepen findings.…”

Guidelines for Reporting and Evaluating Qualitative Research: What are the alternatives?

“…To illustrate, we refer readers to two special editions of the Western Journal of Communication,41(1) from 1977, and 58(1) from 1994, which discuss the admissibility of evidence, criteria to judge evidence, and the various implications of methodology for our conceptions of evidence in reporting research (e.g. Fitch, 1994;Tompkins, 1994). More speci® cally, in raising the question of what it is that qualitative researchers aspire to when conducting and reporting their research, we note the work of Avery and McCain (1984).…”