Strategies for Generalizing Findings in Survey Research

By R. Radhakrishna, Prosper K. Doamekpor. Journal of Extension, 2008

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Surveys are the most common method of data collection used by Extension professionals, agricultural educators, and researchers engaged in social and behavioral sciences. Rarely do they get 100% response for their studies. Then, the question is what do you do to enhance the external validity of your study? Following certain procedures, making logical choices, and providing clear explanations, you can enhance the external validity of your study. This article suggests strategies to enhance the external validity of your study. It is hoped that Extension professionals can benefit from this and interpret results of their research with both clarity and caution.

Subfields: Education

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Technology transfer organizations: Services and business models (2013, background): “The rationale for comparing early and late respondents is the assumption that late respondents might approximate non-respondents, because if the interviewer had not made extra efforts to reach them, they too probably would have been non-respondents (Miller and Smith, 1983; Radhakrishna and Doamekpor”