Match the following terms with their definitions/descriptions:

Question

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Credibility

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Dependability

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Confirmability

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Transferability

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Reductionist approach

A.
A research method that simplifies social reality into parsimonious theories and laws.

B.
The extent to which findings can be generalized to other settings.

C.
The extent to which readers find inferences to be believable.

D.
When two researchers assessing the same phenomenon using the same set of evidence independently arrive at the same conclusions or the same researcher observing the same or a similar phenomenon at different times arrives at similar conclusions.

E.
The extent to which the findings reported in interpretive research can be independently confirmed by others (typically, participants)

Answer 1

Here are the terms matched with their correct definitions/descriptions:

• Credibility
  C. The extent to which readers find inferences to be believable.

• Dependability
  D. When two researchers assessing the same phenomenon using the same set of evidence independently arrive at the same conclusions or the same researcher observing the same or a similar phenomenon at different times arrives at similar conclusions.

• Confirmability
  E. The extent to which the findings reported in interpretive research can be independently confirmed by others (typically, participants).

• Transferability
  B. The extent to which findings can be generalized to other settings.

• Reductionist approach
  A. A research method that simplifies social reality into parsimonious theories and laws.