A personnel director is interested in determining how effect

A personnel director is interested in determining how effective a new reading course will be in improving the reading comprehension of his company\'s employees. The director randomly selects twenty employees and determines the average reading comprehension both before and after instruction in the reading course.

Identify the population and Identify the sample.

What characteristic of the population is being measured?

Solution

The population is the company\'s employees. The sample is randomly selected employees of size twenty.

The reading comprehension of the company\'\'s employees is the characteristic of the population being measured.