Ken Is Conducting a Qualitative Study for the University Regarding

question 7

Multiple Choice

Ken is conducting a qualitative study for the university regarding the institutional variables that racial and ethnic minority doctoral students face in completing their degrees. He feels he needs to interview about 35 graduates. He interviews a small initial sample identified though formal complaints filed regarding the issue. He then asks each of those he interviews to identify any additional participants they can think of and then interviews those individuals until he has reached his sample size. Ken is best illustrating

• A) random purposive sampling.
• B) systematic sampling.
• C) intensity sampling.
• D) snowball sampling.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

The default position that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena or no association among groups.

Alternative Hypothesis

In hypothesis testing, the hypothesis that contradicts the null hypothesis, usually suggesting that a new theory or intervention has an effect.

P-value

A statistical measure that indicates the probability of the observed data, or more extreme, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.

Null Hypothesis

A statement or hypothesis that assumes no statistical significance exists in a set of given observations, serving as the default assumption to be tested.