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Expert Panel Review and Field Testing of Qualitative Instruments
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates how the expert panel review and field testing processes can improve the trustworthiness tenets of credibility, dependability, transferability, and confirmability (Castillo-Montoya, 2016). Extant literature on expert panels is scant. The first section of this chapter seeks to explain what an expert panel review is and who should be included on an expert panel that reviews doctoral research instruments. A qualitative methodologist and a content expert should be considered the minimum of expert panel reviewers. Also discussed is how expert panel reviews can help add trustworthiness when reviewing non-interview instruments. There is equally minimal extant literature on field testing (Merriam, 2009). To help distinguish between pilot and field testing, this chapter refers to field testing as the process of testing a qualitative instrument on a smaller but similar demographic. Therefore, tips, sample IRB applications, and sample recruitment information are included in the chapter. Finally, advice from a dissertation chair and former students is provided.
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