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.
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