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Download full textSteven Michael Carlo – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has tested the civic, or citizenship knowledge of students across the nation at irregular intervals since its very inception. Despite advancements in reading and mathematics, evidenced by results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), civics proficiency has remained…
Descriptors: Civics, Scores, National Competency Tests, Citizenship Education
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Direct linkTye G. Campbell; Katherine N. Vela; Tyler Powell – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Background: Although prior research has explored students' affective experiences in mathematics and its demographic correlatives, additional studies are needed that: (1) use large national data sets; (2) incorporate a broad range of affective constructs; (3) consider trends in student affect over time; and (4) include younger children and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 8, Student Characteristics, Student Interests
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
Fitchett, Paul G.; Heafner, Tina L.; Lambert, Richard G. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
How and to what extent students learn history content is a complicated process, drawing from the instructional opportunities they experience; the policy prioritization of history/social studies instruction in schools; and their own cultural perspectives toward the past. In an attempt to better understand the complex inter-play among these…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, History Instruction, United States History, Socioeconomic Status
National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
As part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading, students are asked to demonstrate their understanding of words as used in literary and informational texts. This focus on students' understanding of word meaning highlights the importance of vocabulary in reading comprehension. This report provides an overview of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Skills, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Sleeter, Christine E. – Urban Education, 2012
Globally, over the last two decades, attention to culturally responsive, multicultural approaches to teaching have largely been supplanted by standardized curricula and pedagogy that derive from neoliberal business models of school reform. In this essay, I discuss three factors that contribute to the marginalization of culturally responsive…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Multicultural Education
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
In 1994, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessed the reading, U.S. history, and geography knowledge and skills of a nationally representative sample of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. The NAEP also assessed representative samples of students from 44 states and jurisdictions in reading at grade four. This Almanac Viewer is…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Demography, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
