ABSTRACT
This final chapter in Part IV contains a relatively short discussion concerning the outcomes of qualitative research, and the criteria that might allow us to evaluate a piece of qualitative work. These two issues are both very important in psychology. First, the way in which qualitative research is reported is slightly different from the standard psychological ‘lab report’, whose structure is based on the information produced in an experimental study with a statistical analysis. The standard lab report is typically laid out with a Method section containing subsections headed Design, Participants (or Subjects), Materials (or Apparatus) and Procedure. This is followed by a Results section and a separate Discussion.
