Research Reveals Key Hurdles Students Must Overcome to Become Good Readers R&D NAEP

Author(s):

Sandberg, Hans

Publication Year:

2020

Source:

Focus on ETS R&D, n16, Apr 2020

Document Type:

Periodical

Page Count:

6

Subject/Key Words:

Reading Skills, Reading Proficiency, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Decoding Reading, Word Recognition, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Elementary Education

Abstract

With much of our life and work taking place in digital domains, reading is crucial to success, whether as a student in school or as an adult navigating our modern world. This makes the current state of reading in the United States troubling. In fact, an alarming two-thirds of fourth- and eighth-graders score below the proficient level in reading, according to standards set by the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), better known as the Nation's Report Card. Focus on ETS R&D asked two experts in The ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education to share some of their insights about the reading process and the importance of measuring foundational reading skills.