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Incorporating Translation in Qualitative Studies: Two Case Studies in Education.

Cross-language qualitative research in education continues to increase. However, there has been inadequate discussion in the literature concerning the translation process that ensures research trustworthiness applicable for bilingual researchers. Informed by the literature on evaluation criteria for qualitative data translation, this paper compares two different procedures for incorporating translation in education qualitative research to provide a clear depiction of the complexities involved in translating qualitative data and the strengths and weaknesses of each procedure. To maintain the trustworthiness of the qualitative research, it is necessary to minimise translation errors, provide detailed accounts of the translation process, involve more than one translator and remain open to scrutiny from those seeking to access the translation process. Taking into account the resource constraints often faced by novice qualitative researchers, this paper provides some strategies that can be employed in similar contexts.

International benchmarking through transitional higher education programme knowledge transfer: An Indonesian case study

Indonesia has the largest population in South East Asia, and to serve this large population, it also has a large number of higher education (HE)institutions, 4,274 in total, serving a student population of 6,873,135 (PDDIKTI, 2015). The large numbers attest to the massive demand and consequently the growth of Indonesias HE since its independence from the Netherlands, when there were only 3,242 students enrolled in a handful of colonially administered institutions between 1920 and 1940 (Somadikarta et al., 1999).