RESEARCH SAMPLING|PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1

#practicalresearch #research #sampling #probability #qualitativeresearch SAMPLING IN RESEARCH Sampling is a process through which a researcher selects a portion or segment from the population at the center of the researcher’s study. The population is a group of persons or objects that possess some common characteristics that are of interest to the researcher, and about which the researcher seeks to learn more. There are two groups of population: the target population and the accessible population. The target population is composed of the entire group of people or objects to which the researcher wishes to generalize the findings of the study, while the accessible population is a portion of the population to which the researcher has reasonable access. For example, in a study about the common difficulties encountered by senior high school students in their first semester of school year 2016-2017, the target population may be all senior high school students in Metro Manila. However, the researcher may have access only to the students of a specific school—these students comprise the accessible population.