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Appropriate criteria of trustworthiness and goodness for qualitative research on education organizations

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A paper prepared originally for a panel presentation for the Special Interest Group on Organizational Theory at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 1984.

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Marshall, C. Appropriate criteria of trustworthiness and goodness for qualitative research on education organizations. Qual Quant 19, 353–373 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00146613

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