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Download full textNational Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
Research has shown that reading ability is positively correlated with the extent to which students read recreationally. Educators are increasingly encouraging their students to read and write on their own, outside of school. Changes in the frequency with which students (in grades 4, 8, and 11 in studies conducted from 1984 through 1994) read and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Habits, Reading Material Selection
Lee, Valerie E. – 1987
Intended to enable Catholic educators to evaluate and compare the writing progress of their students to that of the nation as a whole, this report presents writing achievement data of Catholic school students in grades 4, 8, and 11, assessed in 1983-84 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). A summary of the findings of the NAEP…
Descriptors: Blacks, Catholic Schools, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Ballator, Nada; Farnum, Marisa; Kaplan, Bruce – 1999
Supplementary to "NAEP 1996 Trends in Academic Progress," this report describes two aspects of writing for which change has been measured since 1984: writing fluency as determined by holistic scoring; and mastery of the conventions of written English as determined by mechanics scoring. The introduction discusses the layout and means of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 4
