EXAMPLE 3.21

The Reading Recovery program. The Reading Recovery (RR) program has specially trained teachers work one-on-one with at-risk first-grade students to help them learn to read. A study was designed to examine the relationship between the RR teachers’ beliefs about their ability to motivate students and the progress of the students whom they teach.¹³ The Reading Recovery International Data Evaluation Center website (www.idecweb.us) says that there are 13,823 RR teachers. The researchers send a questionnaire to a random sample of 200 of these. The population consists of all 13,823 RR teachers, and the sample is the 200 that were randomly selected.