The director of an inner-city preschool program wants
to obtain parents’ perspectives of the program. She is
especially interested in this year’s innovation in one
class: a parent education program. Materials are sent
home twice a week for a parent or guardian to work with
the child, and records of teacher-parent contacts are
made. There are 12 children in the preschool class. Four
children live with a single parent, six live with both parents, and two children live with one parent and their
grandparents.
a. What type of sampling is appropriate and why? (probability or qualitative)
b. How should the sampling be done?
c. Which qualitative strategies would be appropriate?
