Research Paper Quiz

Ideally, samples for qualitative research should follow the concept of ______.

• interpretivism

•  population

• saturation

• sampling

Simple random sampling is a ______ sampling method.

• confusing

•  non-probability

• probability

• target population

Which is not a feature of qualitative sampling?

• Samples tend to be small and studied intensively.

• Participants are selected randomly.

• Sample members are not pre-specified

• Sample selection is driven by conceptual ideas rather than for representativeness.

It is called as volunteer sample, most easy, economical, and not preferred approach even in qualitative study.

• Convenience sampling

• Purposive sampling

• Quota Sampling

• Snowball sampling

It selects cases that will most benefit the study, several diverse approaches to meet conceptual and substantive needs of research, sampling for representativeness or comparative value.

• Convenience sampling

• Purposive sampling

• Quota Sampling

• Quota Sampling

Probability sampling is rarely used in qualitative research because:

• It is very old-fashioned.

•  It is often not feasible

• Qualitative researchers are not trained in statistics

• Research questions are more important than sampling.

The minimum sample size for qualitative interviewing is:

• 30

• 31

• 60

• It is hard to say.

In a research design, ___________and ________ are two important terms. A population is a group of individuals that share common connections.

A __________is a subset of the population.

The _________ is the number of individuals in a sample.