Exam 5: Selecting a Sample

Of the 9000 students at a small Liberal Arts College, 3 out of 5 are Jewish. Lauren is conducting a study regarding opinions about the relationship between religion and politics. She would like to generalize her findings to the population of the College. Which of the random sampling strategies should Lauren use to assure that her sample represents her population?

Bonnie is conducting a study on the social skills of those children who have identified speech and language needs. She selects children who have Individual Education Plans IEPs) for speech and language only and not any other educational exceptionalities. Bonnie is illustrating

The first step in random sampling is to

Sammy collected data from 18 pre-service secondary science majors at a small university in the Western United States regarding their opinions of Inquiry as an instructional approach. -Which of the following represents Sammy's accessible population?

Generally, which of the following is NOT suggested for use in quantitative studies?

Your school district is considering having summer library hours at several elementary schools. These hours will allow children to take out books over the summer. A team of researchers has been hired to determine if the local community supports the cost of the program. The researchers develop a brief survey and go to the local public library on Saturday morning to solicit volunteers to fill out their survey. These researchers are illustrating

What is the next step that Jim will conduct to carry out random sampling for his study?

Ken randomly selected 75 students to participate in his study and then randomly assigned them to one of three conditions. When he examined his groups he found he had very unequal gender by condition. Ken's samples illustrate

The school board asked Han to conduct a study on the attitudes of faculty regarding the proposed school uniform policy. Han stops by the teachers' lounge and surveys the faculty present. Which nonrandom sampling approach did Han employ?

Given that you would like to generalize the findings from your survey regarding eating disorders in high school athletes, which of the following sampling approaches is most appropriate?

Sammy collected data from 18 pre-service secondary science majors at a small university in the Western United States regarding their opinions of Inquiry as an instructional approach. -Which of the following is likely Sammy's target population?

Jenn is a qualitative researcher interested in the experiences of male kindergarten teachers in her county. There are only three teachers that fit her study. She is likely to use which of the following examples of qualitative sampling?

If all participants in a given sample have an equal and independent chance of being selected for a study it is said that the sample has been selected

Maria needs to randomly select 90 participants from a pool of 5000. With how many digits in each entry of the random number table will Maria need to be concerned?

Jill examines the career interest of children of international diplomats. She selects the children of international diplomats from the United States who were in service between 1980 and 1990. The children had to be at least eight years old but less than 16 years old at the time of their parent's service and had to be stationed outside the United States with their diplomat parent for at least 24 continuous months. Jill is using which type of sampling?

How would one define the sampling strategy Isabella selected?

In his study on test anxiety, Jim is particularly interested in studying only first-year university students because he wants his findings to generalize to only first year students in large universities in the United States. He samples first year students at his own west coast, state university. He has identified all first year students at his institution, he has determined his desired sample size, and he has listed all the members of the population. -In Jim's study, the accessible population is

As a volunteer worker in a recent election, Ulan made telephone calls to registered republicans. He needed to contact 200 African American males, between 30-50, who work in small businesses. The sampling strategy that Ulan worked under is best described as

Marc is a qualitative researcher who needs to interview both expert and novice teachers for a study. He expects to interview about 50 teachers. Which sampling strategy will Marc likely use?

Francisco is studying young children's color preferences by age. He is interested in comparing three, four, and five-year old children's color preferences. He is reluctant to use simple random sampling because he wants to assure that he has comparable numbers of children at each age. Which quantitative sampling strategy is the approach for Francisco to use?