Exam 5: Selecting a Sample

Participants identified as those from whom to seek information is the definition of

Kim needs to randomly select 80 students from a group of 400. After listing all potential participants what will Kim do next?

Charlie has written up his study on special education students' attitudes about technology. He includes a statement regarding the ethnicity of the students in his sample. This information is best classified as

Jacki is conducting a study that examines the effects of multi-vitamins on common cold symptoms. She hopes to generalize her findings to the school-age population of children in a specified region in her state. She knows the population of children is 9,000. She is going to do a survey study and decides to sample 7000 children. Regarding Jacki's sample we know that

The group that the researcher would ideally like to generalize findings to is referred to as

When employing random purposive sampling, the initial sample is selected

Yohance intends to conduct a large survey study that examines access to higher education among urban populations in Mexico. Of the following, which is most likely the sampling strategy that Yohance will consider?

Given that you want to compare different instructional strategies teachers can use to teach early reading you would likely employ __________ sampling in your research.

Which of the following is a type of random sampling?

Generally, qualitative researchers select a sample that is

Abby is conducting research on the perceived role of Arts within medium-sized suburban communities. She wants to survey people with an affinity for some from of the Arts. She goes to a local theatre production of The Music Man to get participants. Abby is illustrating

Ken is conducting a qualitative study for the university regarding the institutional variables that racial and ethnic minority doctoral students face in completing their degrees. Only those students who have completed their degrees in the last five years and may have faced institutional barriers are desired for the study. He feels he needs to interview about 35 graduates. He interviews a small initial sample identified though formal complaints filed regarding the issue. He then asks each of those he interviews to identify any additional participants they can think of and then interviews those individuals until he has reached his sample size. Ken is best illustrating

In homogeneous sample, researchers