Assessment Sampling Techniques

A student wants to determine the favorite professional sport of students in her high school.  Which of the following samples is most likely to giver her a representative sample?

• A random Sample of the students in the art honor society
• A random sample of students on the basketball team
• A random sample of students on the official school enrollment roster
• A random sample of students in the library during lunch

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting 5 girls and 7 boys.  This type of sampling is called?

• Stratified
• Systematic
• Simple
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list.  Which type of sampling method is this?

• Simple
• Systematic
• Stratified
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting all students sitting at group 1 and group 5 in her classroom.  This sampling technique is called?

• Simple
• Stratified
• Systematic
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by picking 10 numbers from her hat and each number is assigned to a student. This is ______________ random sampling.

• Systematic
• Simple
• Stratified
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Farmer Joe's apple tree farm is set up in 100 rows.  He counts the number of apples produced on every 10th row to estimate the number apples produced on the whole farm.  This is _____________ sampling.  

• Simple
• Stratified
• Cluster
• Systematic

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Farmer Joe separates his farm into 10 regions.  He then randomly selected 5 trees from each region to estimate the number of apples produced on his apple tree farm.  This is _____________ sampling.  

• Cluster
• Systematic
• Stratified
• Simple

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

In order to use samples to estimate something from the population, the sample should be _________________ the population.

• exactly the same as
• nothing like
• representative of
• larger than

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

When one examines the entire population instead of a subgroup of the population, this is called a ____________.

• Sampling
• Census
• Bias

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by picking 10 numbers from her hat and each number is assigned to a student. This is ______________ random sampling.

• Systematic
• Simple
• Stratified
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3