The Development of the Framework of Effective Teaching-Learning in Clinical Education: A Meta-Synthesis Approach
Table 5
Criteria for the validity of meta-synthesis and its guaranteeing strategies.
Strategies
Criteria
Descriptive validity
Interpretive validity
Theoretical validity
Pragmatic validity
Use of all channels to search for studies
✓
The consulting with librarians and information science experts
✓
Iterative search strategy to ensure a comprehensive search
✓
The meetings with the supervisor and two information science experts on important databases, search methods and retrieval procedures
✓
Contacting the authors of the studies included in meta-synthesis to resolve possible ambiguities with the help of the author
✓
✓
Using reference manager software to track search and partitioning of found studies
✓
The audit trail or documentation
✓
✓
✓
✓
The regular meetings regarding the evaluation strategies of the study report
✓
The critical appraisal of the study report under the guidance of the supervisor and two internal and external reviewers and two Ph.D. students in medical education
✓
Consulting with the supervisor, and several specialists in qualitative methodology and meta-synthesis
✓
The expert peer review (evaluation of synthesized findings by supervisors, medical education specialists and expert clinical teachers)
