The criterion of 'transferability' in qualitative research is equivalent to which of the following criteria in quantitative research?
external validity
Lincoln and Guba gave qualitative research its own quality criteria to parallel the four familiar quality criteria of quantitative research. You should learn these as matched pairs.
In quantitative research the four criteria are: internal validity (are the causal conclusions genuinely true within the study?), external validity (can the findings be applied to other people, settings and times?), reliability (would the study give the same result if repeated?), and objectivity (are the findings free of the researcher's bias?).
The qualitative parallels are: credibility matches internal validity, transferability matches external validity, dependability matches reliability, and confirmability matches objectivity.
The question asks about 'transferability'. Transferability concerns whether the insights from one study can be carried over and applied to a different context. That is exactly what external validity asks in quantitative research — whether results generalize beyond the study. Hence the two are equivalent.
Why the others are wrong: the criterion about truth of causal conclusions within the study is internal validity (its qualitative twin is credibility); the criterion about repeatability is reliability (twin: dependability); the criterion about freedom from bias is objectivity (twin: confirmability).
Correct answer: external validity
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