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Exploring the 2017 NAEP Reading Results: Systemic Reforms Beat Simplistic Solutions. Literacy Leadership Brief
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Wixson, Karen K.; Raphael, Taffy E.; Au, Kathryn H. – International Literacy Association, 2018
With the release of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, concerns that reading scores of U.S. students have remained flat for the past decade have surfaced again along with suggestions about the source of this problem and how it might be remedied. The…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Tests, Achievement Tests, Grade 4
Assessment Innovation and Reform in France
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Jeantheau, Jean-Pierre; Johnson, Sandra – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2020
The last two decades have seen fast-moving and wholescale changes in the ways that education is now provided in French schools, in the nature of learner assessment, and in the form and scale of system evaluation. Innovation and reform have in part followed international trends, themselves triggered by the global impact of the international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Economic Factors
Birth of a Standard: Idaho Spells Out Statewide Expectations for Reading Instruction.
Sherman, Lee – Northwest Education, 2001
Bucking a longstanding tradition of local control, the Idaho Legislature launched mandatory statewide standards in reading in 1999. The Idaho Reading Indicator now monitors the progress of early readers three times a year. Innovative local strategies to help struggling readers are described, and the importance of a systemic approach to reform and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Early Reading, Educational Change, Educational Strategies