Imagine that you are conducting a research study. You hypothesize that adult learners who are completing their degrees online have a better educational experience than adult learners who are completing their degrees in face-to-face classroom settings. To test your hypothesis, you will need to obtain a sample of online adult learners and a group of face-to-face adult learners.

Respond to the following questions:

How would you obtain a simple random sample from each group? If roughly 60% of the adult learners are women, how would you obtain a sample from each group using a stratified random sampling method? How would you obtain a convenience sample from each group? Discuss which sampling method (#1-3) is most feasible in your opinion and describe the strengths and limitations of that method.