Activity 4

A researcher wants to find out about participation in sport among undergraduate students from different subject areas studying at a particular university. It is important to the researcher that he is able to interview students from all subject areas as he wants to find out whether there is a connection between subject studied and participation in sport. He decides to arrange his sample by undergraduate subject and then, within each subject, choose students on a

Activity 5

The researcher described in Activity 4 finds that there are many more art students than science

students. So he decides to increase the sample size of his science students to make sure that his data are meaningful.

name the sampling technique;

highlight possible strengths and weaknesses;

give another example of a research project that could utilize this particular sampling technique.

pls answer activity 5