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Sampling Methods - Matching Exercise

Match the research scenarios to the correct sampling method.

1


Researchers wanted to know if the high school students in Happy Town felt their education prepared them for college. The school district provided them with a list of all the students and they randomly selected a sample of 200 students to survey.

2


Researchers wanted to know if Happy Town high school students with different ethnic backgrounds felt their education prepared them for college. The school district provided a list of the students and their ethnicity. Researchers first divided the list into ethnic subgroups and then randomly selected a sample that reflected the numerical composition of ethnic groups in the population of high school students.

3


Researchers wanted to know if male and female high school students felt their education prepared them for college. In order to reflect the percentage of males and females in the population, the researchers made sure that their convenience sample included 46% female and 54% male students.

4


Researchers wanted to know if high school students in Alaska felt their education prepared them for college. Researchers listed all the high schools in Alaska and then randomly sampled 20 high schools from the list. Each of these schools was contacted and sent the researchers their student rosters. The researchers then contacted these students and asked them to complete the survey.

5


Researchers wanted to know if Happy Town high school students felt their education prepared them for college. The researchers selected a sample from students waiting in line in the bookstore and students leaving the library.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 5
A)Quota sampling
B)Stratified random sampling
C)Cluster sampling
D)Simple random sampling
E)Haphazard sampling





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