Best Practice 8, Provision D, Use of Rigorous Evaluation Methods What is Rigor? In teaching this means setting high expectations, while maintaining accessibility and cognitive engagement with content. In research, this means that every step of a research program is thorough, peer reviews, based on the highest quality evidence and practices. We can think of rigor as a way of determining trustworthiness of a particular piece of research. This eight minute video from Yale University describes rigor in qualitative research, … Continue reading Is it Rigorous?