QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

ESTABLISHING TRUSTWORTHINESS :
CREDIBILITY, TRANSFERABILITY, DEPENDABILITY, & CONFIRMABILITY

LECTURER : Prof. Dr. Didik Santoso, M.Pd

 CREDIBILITY

Since from this perspective, the

purpose of qualitative research
is to describe or understand the
phenomena of interest from the
participant’s eyes, the
participants are the only ones
The credibility criteria involves
who can legitimately judge the
establishing that the results of
credibility of the results.
qualitative research are credible
or believable from the
perspective of the participant in
the research.
 TRANSFERABILITY
Transferability refers to the
degree to which the results of
qualitative research can be
generalized or transferred to
other contexts or settings. 
From a qualitative
perspective transferability
is primarily the
responsibility of the one
doing the generalizing. 
 DEPENDABILITY

The research is responsible

for describing the changes
that occur in the setting and
how these changes affected
The idea of dependability, on the way the research
the other hand, emphasizes approached the study.
the need for the researcher to
account for the ever-changing
context within which
research occurs. 
 An external researcher
can judge whether this
CONFIRMABILITY is the case by studying
the data collected
during the original
inquiry. To enhance the
confirmability of the
initial conclusion, and
audit trail can be
completed throughout
the study to
demonstrate how each
decision was made.

 Confirmability refers to   This is a process to

the degree to which the establish whether the
results could be researcher has been bias
confirmed or during the study; this is
corroborated by others.  due to the assumption
that qualitative research
allows the research to
bring a unique perspective
to the study.
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