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Peer reviewedDonovan, Ann – Educational Leadership, 1984
Although basic literacy will continue to be necessary for survival, mass communications and information technology are bringing about an inevitable and lamentable decline in reading for pleasure and in the love of literature for its own sake. (TE)
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Library Surveys, Literacy, Literature Appreciation
Download full textGallo, Donald R. – 1974
Conducted from October 1970 through August 1971, this assessment of reading was concerned with four age levels--9, 13, 17, and 26-35. A total of 98,016 people responded to a wide variety of reading exercises which were administered and scored by trained professionals. The results were then examined according to various group characteristics: sex,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Educational Assessment
PDF pending restorationCampbell, Jay R.; And Others – 1995
Stemming from the 1992 Integrated Reading Performance Record (IRPR), a study investigated the reading habits and practices and the classroom activities related to reading of a subgroup of students participating in the 1992 reading assessment conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Subjects, 1,136 fourth graders, were…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Interviews, Reading Achievement
Johnson, Simon – 1973
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…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Community Characteristics, Geographic Regions, Literature Appreciation
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
Miller, Karen E.; And Others – 1995
Intended as a companion document to the "NAEP 1994 Reading Report Card for the Nation and States" and the "NAEP 1994 Reading State Report," this compendium presents fourth-grade cross-state results of the National Assessment in Educational Process (NAEP) 1994 Trial State Assessment in reading--no interpretations of the data are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Institutional Characteristics, Intermediate Grades
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
