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Using Rich Pictures To Verify, Contradict, Or Enhance Verbal Data, Carol M. Booton
Using Rich Pictures To Verify, Contradict, Or Enhance Verbal Data, Carol M. Booton
The Qualitative Report
The problem addressed in this case study stemmed from recognition of qualitative researchers’ desire to triangulate findings with two or more data sources. In this study, I describe the process of using visual data to verify, contradict, or enhance verbal data using a soft systems methodology tool called rich pictures. To date, the process of comparing verbal data and visual data has not been well explored. I use secondary data from a Ph.D. study about faculty members’ perceptions of academic quality to compare two data sources: participants’ verbal definitions of academic quality and participants’ verbal descriptions of rich pictures representing …