Probability Sampling
Answer: Everyone in the population has exactly the same chance of being included in this sampling method.
What is simple random sampling?
Answer: This sampling method is the most common and easiest.
What is convenience sampling?
Answer: This type of sampling occurred when you are given a random list of all graduating seniors at UP and you decide to survey every 5th name on the list to ask them what types of activities they participated in at UP.
What is systematic sampling?
Answer: This is the sampling plan you might use to investigate undergraduate college students' attitudes about math in Canada (you have a reliable and valid survey to use).
There are lots of right answers! What rationale did you use to support your sampling design?
Answer: This type of sampling helps assure representation of all sub-groups.
What is stratified [random] sampling?
Answer: In this type of sampling the researchers specifically chooses participants for a specific reason (i.e., principals who have turned their school around).
What is purposeful / purposive sampling?
Answer: This is what you should be worried about when, to understand the effects of diet on health of people in Alberta, you use simple random sampling to select people that are patients at the local hospitals to participate.
What is sampling bias [systematic sampling error that is the fault of the researcher]?
Answer: This is the type of sampling you might use for your dissertation and the reasoning behind it.
What are you thinking of studying for your dissertation? Share with your colleagues and get feedback! :-)
Answer: This sampling method is most useful when the researcher needs to cover a large geographic area.
What is cluster [random] sampling?
Answer: This type of sampling involves sampling until you reach a certain number of participants.
What is quota sampling?
Answer: This is the type of sampling you used when you randomly select 5 high socioeconomic status schools and 5 low socioeconomic schools and have all students within the 10 schools complete your engagement survey.
What is MULTISTAGE SAMPLING [tricky tricky!]? (stage 1: stratified by SES, stage 2: cluster)
This is the average number of spiders a human eats in their lifetime at night (gross!).
What is 8? Congrats! You are a sampling expert now!