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Download full textNational Assessment Governing Board, 2019
As the ongoing national indicator of what American students know and can do, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Reading regularly collects achievement information on representative samples of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. Through "The Nation's Report Card," the NAEP Reading Assessment reports how well students…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Skills, Reading Tests, Reading Achievement
National Assessment Governing Board, 2017
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Reading regularly collects achievement information on representative samples of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. Through The Nation's Report Card, the NAEP Reading Assessment reports how well students perform in reading various texts and responding to those texts by answering…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Skills, Reading Tests, Reading Achievement
National Assessment Governing Board, 2017
The reading framework for the 2017 NAEP describes the types of texts and questions that should be included in the assessment, as well as how the questions should be designed and scored. The assessment measures students' reading comprehension and ability to apply vocabulary knowledge by having them read passages in English and answer questions…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Skills, Reading Tests, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedAraujo, Juan J., Ed.; Babino, Alexandra, Ed.; Dixon, Kathryn, Ed.; Cossa, Nedra, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2022
The theme of this year was educate to liberate. A reminder to the literacy community that education, and literacy extend beyond the content and courses we teach. As Freire puts it, "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Learner Engagement, Empathy, Reading Aloud to Others
National Assessment Governing Board, 2015
The reading framework for the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) presents the assessment's conceptual base and discusses its content. The framework describes the types of texts and questions that should be included in the assessment, as well as how the questions should be designed and scored. This report provides highlights of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Critical Reading, National Competency Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
National Assessment Governing Board, 2015
As the ongoing national indicator of what American students know and can do, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Reading regularly collects achievement information on representative samples of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. Through The Nation's Report Card, the NAEP Reading Assessment reports how well students perform in…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Critical Reading, National Competency Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Rexford – 1973
This study presents the second of four reports of the results of the 1970-71 National Assessment of Literature. The educational attainments of nine-year-olds, thirteen-year-olds, seventeen-year-olds, and adults (ages 26-35) were surveyed according to the subjects' ability to become engaged in, find meanings in, and evaluate a work of literature.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, English
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1973
This study presents the third of four reports of the 1970-71 National Assessment of Literature. The educational attainments of nine-year-olds, thirteen-year-olds, seventeen-year-olds, and adults (ages 26-35) were surveyed according to their ability to recognize literary works and characters. Five types of exercises were used: (1) an illustration…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, English
Brown, Rexford G. – 1973
This study includes exercises which assessed five rudimentary skills involved in understanding and interpreting imaginative literature. The study is one of a series by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which gathers information about the eudcational attainments of 9, 13, and 17 year olds and adults (ages 26-35) in ten subject areas.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Elementary Education, English
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1973
This volume contains 1970-71 Literature assessment exercises (all in the public domain) which have been selected for release at this time by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Information furnished for each exercise includes: the literature objective it was designed to measure, the theme (section) in which it appears, relevant…
Descriptors: Characterization, Drama, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Brown, Rexford G. – 1973
This section of the 1970-1971 National Assessment of Educational Progress presents summary data for the responses to literature assessment. Data is presented in graph and tabular form and discussed in detail for the educational attainments of nine year olds, thirteen year olds, seventeen year olds, and adults (ages 26-35). The data is also…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, English Instruction
Appleman, Deborah – 1987
This study investigated the effects of heuristically based assignments and tests on adolescents' written responses to literature. In order to examine both tests and instruction, two separate but related experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 investigated whether the inclusion of guided prewriting on essay tests for two poems and two short…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Critical Thinking, Essay Tests, Grade 12
