Compara mètodes

	Comprovació de membres i validació de respondents	Investigació de mètodes mixts	Observació Participant
Camp	Recerca qualitativa	Qualitativa	Recerca qualitativa
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Any d'origen	1985	—	1922
Autor original	Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba	—	Bronislaw Malinowski
Tipus	Method	Research design framework	Method
Font seminal	Lincoln, Y. S., & Guba, E. G. (1985). Naturalistic Inquiry. SAGE Publications. ISBN: 978-0803924314	Creswell, J.W. & Plano Clark, V.L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1483344379	Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books. ISBN: 978-0465026432
Àlies	member validation, respondent validation, participant feedback, credibility check	Karma Yöntem Araştırması (Mixed Methods), multi-method research, triangulation design	ethnographic observation, participatory observation, overt observation, immersive observation
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Resum	Member checking is a quality assurance procedure in qualitative research in which the researcher shares preliminary findings, interpretations, or analytical themes with research participants and asks whether the findings accurately reflect their perspectives and experiences. Developed by Lincoln and Guba (1985) as a trustworthiness criterion, member checking is considered a key method for ensuring credibility and reducing researcher misinterpretation. The goal is to verify that the researcher has understood participants correctly and that interpretations are grounded in participants' actual meaning-making, not the researcher's assumptions. Member checking can occur at different points in research (after individual interviews, after initial analysis, or after draft findings are written) and take different forms (individual feedback, group validation, interactive discussion).	Mixed methods research is a systematic research design in which quantitative and qualitative data are collected and analysed within a single study. Formalised by Creswell and Plano Clark (2003, 3rd ed. 2018), it offers three principal design variants — concurrent, sequential, and transformative — and strengthens findings through triangulation across both data strands.	Participant observation is a qualitative research method in which the researcher embeds themselves within a community, organization, or social setting for an extended period, engaging in the activities and relationships of the group while systematically observing and documenting behavior, interactions, and cultural meaning. Pioneered by Malinowski in the 1920s and developed in anthropology, the method has been adopted across sociology, education, health sciences, and organizational research. The researcher functions as both insider (participating in group activities) and outsider (maintaining analytical distance), generating thick description—rich accounts of context, behavior, and meaning that reveal how people actually live and interact.