Member Check - Advantages and Disadvantages of Member Checks - Advantages

Advantages

The greatest advantage in a member check is that the researcher can verify the entirety and completeness of the findings, which is a measurable tool of the accuracy of the findings.

Other Advantages:

• Provides an opportunity to understand and assess what the participant intended to do through his or her actions
• Gives participants opportunity to correct errors and challenge what are perceived as wrong interpretations
• Provides the opportunity to volunteer additional information which may be stimulated by the playing back process
• Gets respondent on the record with his or her reports
• Provides an opportunity to summarize preliminary findings
• Member checks can be useful in action research projects, where researchers work with participants on a continuing basis to help with change.
• It lessens the risk of participants reporting at a later date that the researcher misunderstood their contributions or claiming investigative error.
• Enables an assessment of what the participant intended by making exact comments or taking specific actions
• Shows high credibility and face validity
• Prevent personal biases from being included within the quantitative research study.
• Prevent false information from being presented as reliable research.