Importance of triangulation

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Our text's author (Jeffrey Glanz) provides a remarkable discussion for us around the importance of triangulation. He describes this term in the glossary (p. 316) as: "Multiple research approaches, data sources, data collection procedures, and analytic procedures. Triangulation strengthens the credibility of data collection and analysis as well as findings. Action researchers should appreciate that the inclusion of both qualitative and quantitative methods is desirable. Triangulation can also be used within each approach to research especially in qualitative studies. Qualitative researchers emphasize the importance of triangulation on the basis of data sources, data collection methods, researcher perspectives, and theoretical frameworks. To the extent that you can triangulate, you will make more effective decisions."

Read Glanz' description of credibility in research as related to triangulation (Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, and Sechrest,1999) on pp. 36-41 of our text, and respond to the following three prompts:

1. What is triangulation and why is it so important when undertaking research?

2. How have you ensured triangulation within your research project?

3. Having completed this class, what do you think will be most challenging as you move forward to completing your own research project?

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