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White, Sheida; Sabatini, John; Park, Bitnara Jasmine; Chen, Jing; Bernstein, Jared; Li, Mengyi – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
The 2018 NAEP Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) study is conducted by NCES to examine fourth-grade students' ability to read passages out loud with sufficient speed, accuracy, and expression, as well as foundational skills to gauge underlying sources of poor fluency. Oral reading fluency and foundational skills are important components of reading that…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Tests, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Doorey, Nancy A. – Educational Testing Service, 2018
In May 2016, an invitational symposium on the Reading for Understanding (RfU) initiative was held in Alexandria, Virginia. Co-hosted by ETS and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the symposium brought together some 160 state and local education leaders to examine the results of the Reading for Understanding Initiative. The goal of…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy Education
O'Reilly, Tenaha; Sands, Anita; Wang, Zuowei; Dreier, Kelsey; Sabatini, John – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2019
America is in a reading crisis. The authors of this new report point out, two in three American fourth-graders are performing below proficient in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)--known as the "Nation's Report Card." There's another troubling component to this crisis. Important segments of society are being left…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Self Efficacy