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Sampling or Assignment? ActivitySampling or Assignment? Activity
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American Psychological Association
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Sampling or Assignment?

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This Sampling or Assignment? activity also includes:
  • Key Points to Remember on Research Methods and Statistics
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Each discipline has its own vocabulary, terms it uses to identify key concepts and processes. Sample, to psychologists, refers to those people (participants) a researcher is studying, while assignment refers to the treatment conditions assigned to a participant. A worksheet asks high schoolers enrolled in a psychology class, to label five difference scenarios as examples of sampling or of assignment.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

child psychology, sampling, scientific research, research reports

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Ask individuals to craft their own examples of a sampling and of a assignment
  • Project page one of the activity that explains the task and copy only page two

Classroom Considerations

  • Presumes the class has discussed the five "Key Points to Remember" reference
  • The first activity in a three-part series on psychology research methods and statistics 

Pros

  • Includes an answer key with detailed explanations

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.9-10.1 RI.11-12.1

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