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Download full textNational Endowment for the Arts, 2007
This report contains the best national data available to provide a reliable and comprehensive overview of American reading today. While it incorporates some statistics from the National Endowment for the Arts' 2004 report, "Reading at Risk," this new study contains vastly more data from numerous sources. Although most of this information is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Late Adolescents, Reading Skills
Massey, Randy H.; Mathews, John J. – 1980
A study was conducted to examine the reading levels of United States Air Force civilian employees according to occupational groupings and grade structure. Approximately 1,050 Air Force civilian subjects were tested on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test or the California Reading Test. Subjects were selected from eight Air Force bases representing the…
Descriptors: Adults, Government Employees, Job Skills, Occupations
School Renaissance Inst., Inc., Madison, WI. – 2000
A study used 1999-2000 data from Accelerated Reader and STAR Reading to assess students' reading practice, growth in reading performance, and effects of Reading Renaissance training on students' reading development. The study included 10 schools that participated in the 1998-99 study and 27 additional schools. Data from 7876 students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Program Implementation, Reading Improvement
Wood, Shaila Penelope – 1979
It was reasoned that readers who have difficulty processing intersentence relationships to discover main ideas of paragraphs would be among those identified as weak comprehenders by a standardized test measure. To test the hypotheses related to this premise, 48 community college students designated as good and poor comprehenders on main idea items…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Organization, Paragraphs
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
The intent of this evaluation report is to provide information obtained from a study of the Success in Reading and Writing Program pilot project initiated in the Washington, D. C. public schools in 1978-79. The first chapter of the report describes the Success in Reading and Writing Program, its goals and objectives, and the pilot project; states…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Reading Improvement
National Endowment for the Arts, 2007
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts published "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America." This detailed study showed that Americans in almost every demographic group were reading fiction, poetry, and drama--and books in general--at significantly lower rates than 10 or 20 years earlier. The declines were steepest among…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Young Adults, Public Agencies, Reading Habits
National Institute for Literacy, 2008
The National Early Literacy Panel (NELP) was appointed in 2002 and carried out its work under the auspices of the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL). NELP's primary goal was to identify interventions, parenting activities, and instructional practices that promote the development of children's early literacy skills. The National Institute…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Home Programs, Young Children, Program Effectiveness
PDF pending restorationRakes, Thomas A.; McWilliams, Lana J. – 1979
A random sample of 300 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students participated in a comparative study of performance on social studies cloze tests, social studies group reading inventories (GRI), and a popular standardized test (Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Survey E). It was found that cloze tests and GRIs constructed from social studies content…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Informal Reading Inventories
