The NAEP 1998 Reading State Reports
March 1999
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Appendix A: Where to Find More Information
Below are only a few suggestions for finding additional NAEP results and related information. In spring 1999, a hyperlinked version of this section will be available from the Web page that introduces the 1998 state reports, . Many of the reports and data files on the Web will require the use of the (free)Adobe Acrobat Reader; for tips on installing the Reader, click on the Help button.
Details of the NAEP Reading Assessment
For details of the framework on which the reading assessment was developed, see the Reading Framework for the National Assessment of Educatonal Progress: 1992-1998. NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card. Both that report and the NAEP 1998 Reading State Reports are available on the NCES Web site, nationsreportcard. For details of the framework on which the reading assessment was developed, see the NAGB site. Click on the Publications button on the left, and then click on Reading Framework for the National Assessment of Educational Progress: 1992-1998.
Late in 1999, technical information about the assessment will be available in the NAEP 1998 Technical Report. Until that technical report is available, many questions may be answered by searching in the Technical Report of the NAEP 1996 State Assessment Program in Mathematics. The mathematics assessment was also on a cross-grade scale, so mathematics scaling procedures would be more similar to reading than would the scaling procedures in the science assessment (which was on a within-grade scale).
Participation by All Jurisdictions in 1998
Information on each jurisdiction's participation rates for schools and students is in Appendix A of the companion report, the NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card, to be found at nationsreportcard. Participation rates from previous years are included in the Technical Report for the given year.
Additional Results from the Reading Assessment
For more findings from the 1998 reading assessments, refer to the 1998 results at nationsreportcard. On the release date, the summary data tables (SDTs) at this site will include student and school variables for all jurisdictions, the nation, and the four NAEP geographic regions. In the spring of 1999, complete SDTs will be available for all jurisdictions, with all background questions cross-tabulated with the major demographic reporting variables (for instance, hours of television watched by level of parental education or limited English proficiency by race/ethnicity). Summary tables will also be available for the jurisdictions' schools and teachers. Results by the purposes for reading will also appear in summary data tables in spring 1999.
The variables reported in the State Reports may be found in the summary data tables at nationsreportcard. The variables reported here, with their labels in the tables are:
- Gender. This is DSEX in the data tables. Reports documenting or surveying gender
differences in reading include
NAEP 1996 Trends in Academic Progress at
and The Condition of Education, for instance
The ETS Gender Study at http://www.ets.org/.
- Race/Ethnicity. This is DRACE in the tables. An instructive explanation of the
derivation appears in Appendix A of the
Reading Report Card, at
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/.
- Students' Reports of Parents' Highest Education Level. PARED is a derived
variable also described in Appendix A of the Reading Report Card. The effect of
parental education is discussed in a paper by
Grissmer,
Kirby, Berends, andWilliamson (1994) at http://www.rand.org/cgi-bin/Abstracts/e-getabbydoc.pl?MR-535-LE.
- Free/Reduced-Price Lunch Program Eligibility. The variable reported here is
SLUNCH1, which is a version of SLUNCH with several of the categories of
SLUNCH (e.g., reduced and free) combined. A
description of the free/reduced-price lunch program
is available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/Default.htm.
- Type of Location. TOL3 is the label in the summary data tables. The TOL variable
uses data from
Common Core of Data (see http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/),
Private School Survey (see http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/), and
Quality Education Data (see http://www.qeddata.com/).
- Type of School. SCHTYPE is the label in the tables. Note that the Nonpublic school sample includes Private and Catholic school students. BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) and DoDEA (Department of Defense Education Activity) students are in the Combined sample only.
The NAEP Summary Data Tables Tool includes links leading to more information on these variables, including how the derived variables were created, and other useful information about the summary data tables.
Publications from NAEP Reading Assessments
NAEP also offers various special reports on reading that may be of particular interest to teachers. These may be ordered from the source at the end of this section, and some of them can be accessed and printed from the Web.
- Reading Framework for the National Assessment of Educational Progress: 1992-1998, from the National Assessment Governing Board (available at nagb)
-
NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card for the Nation and the States, the companion to this
State Report (available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/, the NAEP Web site)
- NAEP 1998 Reading Sample Questions and Student Responses: Results from Public
School Students in the States and Nationwide, a forthcoming brochure with
state-level results for the released items
-
The
NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card National Highlights, a brochure with student
samples, covering the national and state NAEP 1998 Reading Assessment (available
at the NAEP Web site)
- Listening to Children Read Aloud, Data from NAEP's Integrated Reading
Performance Record (IRPR) at Grade 4, results from the 1992 IRPR, a special study
conducted with a subgroup of fourth graders who participated in the 1992 NAEP
Reading Assessment (available in print only)
- Interviewing Children About their Literacy Experiences, Data from NAEP's
Integrated Reading Performance Record (IRPR) at Grade 4, results from the 1992
IRPR, a special study conducted with a subgroup of fourth graders who participated
in the 1992 NAEP Reading Assessment (available in print only)
- Students Selecting Stories: The Effects of Choice in Reading Assessment, results from the NAEP Reader Special Survey of the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (available at the NAEP Web site)
For ordering information on these reports, write:
U.S. Department of Education
ED Pubs
P.O. Box 1398
Jessup, MD 20794-1398
or call toll free 1-877-4 ED PUBS (1-877-433-7827)
NAEP reading reports in addition to those listed above are available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/.
Sample NAEP Questions for Classroom Use
Sample reading questions and student responses from the 1994 reading assessment are now available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/; look for the sample questions. There are also instructions at this site for copying individual items from the files on the Web into a word processor.
All of the 1998 released items are available now in the Reading Report Card. The released items from the 1998 Reading Assessment will appear on the Web in the spring of 1999. Also available will be state-level results for the released items at grades 4 and 8, in a brochure suitable for distribution to schools, NAEP 1998 Sample Questions and Student Responses.
The NAEP 1998 Reading State Reports page
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