Identification of Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Research

Anjana^1, and Rashmi Choudhuri¹

¹Faculty of Education (K), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (U.P.) India-221010

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Anjana and Rashmi Choudhuri. Identification of Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Research. American Journal of Educational Research. 2018; 6(6):592-595. doi: 10.12691/education-6-6-2

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of identification of criteria which measure the quality of research. Assessment of the quality of research is an important issue in the academic community. Time to time some criteria of quality of research have been given by different authors but an adequate or appropriate existing scale to assess the quality of research is still lacking. This paper presents a systematic process employed to develop a scale for assessing the quality of research. Reliability and validity of the tool have also been reported.

Keywords:
quality of research identification and item analysis

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