How do OSU undergraduate students in the departments of Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Psychology,
and Mathematics feel about the academic advising they receive? College administrators are interested
in this topic and would like to survey students who are majoring in these areas about their attitudes
and opinions. Which of the following answer options describes what a stratified sampling method
would look like?
On the homepage of each department, administrators share a link to a survey and invite students to
voluntarily respond to the survey.
A mechanism is used to randomly select students from each department to survey and surveys are then
sent to each selected student.
From each department, an alphabetized list of all undergraduate students is obtained and a survey is
then mailed to every 30th student on each list.
Academic advisors from each department are asked to share the names of students they think should be
surveyed.
All of the above answer options describe a stratified random sampling method.
