Types of Sampling

Marianne wanted to know students' opinion on the new schedule at school. She survey's the first 30 students who come into her class.

• Convenience Sampling

• Cluster Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Volunteer response

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

An independent research company wants to go door to door to survey people in the city of Fontana. The company decides to number all blocks within the city limit, randomly choose 1 block and survey all households on that block.

This is an example of:

• Simple Random Sample

• Stratified Random Sample

• Cluster Random Sample

• Convenience Sampling

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

A teacher splits her classes up by period. She then randomly picks 3 students from each period to do a survey.

• Stratified.

• Simple Random Sample

• Cluster

• Biased.

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Political webpages often allow readers to rate (if they want to) whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the President's decision on any given situation. This is a form of:

• Volunteer Response

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Stratified Random Sampling

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

A teacher wants to know how well her students are doing on a topic. She randomly picks one class to survey.

• Simple Random

• Cluster

• Stratified

• Convenience

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

This sample is selected by dividing the population into subgroups and then taking a fixed number of units from each group using the simple random sample.

• stratified
• cluster
• judgment
• experimental

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Units of the population are grouped; one or more groups are selected at random.  All units of that group are included in the sample.

• cluster sample
• simple random
• stratified
• proportional

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Identify the sampling design: Student government randomly samples 25 students of each of the four classes.

• stratified
• volunteer
• cluster

• simple random

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

You want to gain data about the standardized test scores for all the fifth graders in your county. You have access to lists of fifth graders at other local schools and decide to take a random sample of 20 from each group of fifth graders. What type of sampling did you use?

• Simple Random Sampling

• Convenience Sampling

• Cluster Sampling

• Stratified Sampling

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

You want to survey some local people about changes to the county's transit system. You spend the day at a nearby movie theatre, and survey the people who are leaving. What type of sampling was this?

• Simple Random Sampling

• Cluster Sampling

• Stratified Sampling

• Convenience Sampling

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1