UU-PhD-801 Research: Defining Triangulation and Its Importance

This assignment defines triangulation as a research method used to validate data by cross-verifying information from multiple sources, encompassing both quantitative and qualitative data. The paper highlights the importance of triangulation in enhancing the reliability and validity of research outcomes. It discusses the different types of triangulation, including data, investigator, theoretical, and methodological approaches, emphasizing their roles in building confidence in research data, generating new insights, and minimizing inconsistencies. The assignment also briefly acknowledges the time-consuming nature of triangulation and potential disadvantages such as investigator biasness. The document concludes by underscoring the need to select the most suitable triangulation method for specific research objectives, with references supporting the concepts discussed. This assignment is a student contribution for the Desklib platform, which offers various AI-based study tools.

Defining triangulation and
outline its importance

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
What is triangulation?............................................................................................................3
Importance of triangulation....................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Triangulation is a research method used to check the reliability and validity of the
research. There are different types of methods such as data, investigator, theoretical and
methodological.
What is triangulation?
Triangulation is a technique that assist in validating data through cross verification
from more than one sources (Flick, 2018). It is basically the application of several research
methods while studying the same phenomenon. It takes into consideration both quantitative
and qualitative data for the study. The main objective of triangulation is to increase the
validity and credibility of the outcome.
Importance of triangulation
Triangulation is important in building and increasing confidence in the research data,
it creates an innovative way of understanding the phenomenon, challenging and integrating
the theories (Turner, Cardinal and Burton, 2017). The major importance of triangulation is
stated below.
 Triangulation validates the quality results with the help of quantitative studies.
 With the help of multiple sources and methods, inadequacies in the approach can be
minimized (Triangulation. 2018).
 A deeper insight can be gained through multiple methods.
 Inconsistencies can be removed.
 It increases the credibility of the data and leads to stronger research designs.
Apart from the above importance, triangulation is a time-consuming process and requires
a good planning along with more resources (Abdalla and et.al, 2018). It is prone to some
disadvantages as well such as investigator biasness, theoretical conflicts and lack of
knowledge and understanding.
CONCLUSION
Thus, it can be said from the above that triangulation is required to be done with all
the relevant information. So, it is very important to select the method that best suits the
research.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Flick, U., 2018. Doing triangulation and mixed methods (Vol. 8). Sage.
Turner, S. F., Cardinal, L. B. and Burton, R. M., 2017. Research design for mixed methods:
A triangulation-based framework and roadmap. Organizational Research Methods. 20(2).
pp.243-267.
Abdalla, M. M. and et.al, 2018. Quality in qualitative organizational research: Types of
triangulation as a methodological alternative. Administração: Ensino e Pesquisa. 19(1).
Online
Triangulation. 2018. [Online]. Available Through:<
https://www.betterevaluation.org/en/evaluation-options/triangulation >.