Day 2

- Accessability of a sample

Hi Hemangi, I read the 98-99 pages of the book Research Methods in Education by Louis Cohen and Lawrence Manion. The explanation given about the access to the sample is very comprehensive.

The examples that I can think of about the problems, a researcher might face in accessing a sample are:

1. The students who have high security around them as their parents are important personalities of the country or are celebrities. Research may be whether these students make their group with other socio-economic class students or not. Limitation to the sample is that the sample has high security around them which sometimes restricts access to them for researcher.
   
2. Research on the scholastic achievement of the students who always travel from one place to other due to the job transfer of their parents. Limitation to the sample is, the sample may not stay at one place for more than one year.
   
3. Survey on the personality development of the students who are grown up single-handedly due to the divorced parents. Limitation to the sample is, the sample themselves don’t want to speak about their relationship with parents which has directly affected to their personality development. (On page 99 of the said book the reason given for this is that the sample sometimes fears to get embarrassed by giving some confidential information)
   

I hope that these examples satisfy the question you asked.