Provided by the National Assessment of Educational Progress are the exercises in and results of a survey to determine attitudes toward literary instruction and to discover what types of literature individuals read and how often they read. Overall national results and results for such categories as region, sex, color, parental education, and size…

Examines data collected from the 1981-82 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Compares various groups of extreme rural males, females, Whites, and Blacks regarding achievement in social studies. Concludes that findings from the study should be used to improve weak areas of social studies curricula and recommends skills that should…

This report provides the technical results of the 1971-72 national assessment of social studies. The results are summarized across assessment exercises for the sample. Exhibits include comparison of age for the learning area, of each of the National Assessment's reporting groups with the national level of performance, of the various groups within…