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MARTINEZ MIGUELEZ, Miguel. Validez y confiabilidad en la metodología cualitativa. Paradìgma [online]. 2006, vol.27, n.2, pp.07-33. ISSN 1011-2251.

This article tries to clarify the frequent confusion that many investigators have when using the approaches related to the validity and reliability in an investigation of the traditional quantitative orientation or the qualitative one. Emphasis is made on the epistemological focus of each one like base of everything, on its own characteristics and, mainly, on the eminently critical process that accompanies the qualitative methodology in all its phases: processes of information gathering, of categorization, of structuring, of “contrasting”, and of teorization, and, in a special way, in the approaches to the evaluation of results or theoretical structures as final objective of the investigation.

Palavras-chave : validity; reliability; epistemology; cualitative metodology.