Generalizability and Transferability

Generalizability and Transferability

• qualitative or quantitative

• Generalizability = quantitative

• Transferability = qualitative

What are the three things you are trying to generalize/tranfer towards

• The target population

• Beyond the study

• The theory

Generalizability: Target population

population validity

• affected by sample (size, method, characteristics)

Generalizability: beyond the study

ecological validity

• affected by level of control

Generalizability: To the theory

construct validity

• affected by the extent to which a test/tool accurately measures the theoretical construct it intends to measure

Transferability: Target population

representational generalizability

• affected by sampling methods, sample demographics

Transferability: beyond the study

• Contexts/cases that share similar characteristics

Transferability: To the theory

• can the findings be applied to broader theoretical concepts?