Students Selecting Stories: The Effects of Choice in Reading Assessment. Resultsfrom the 'NAEP Reader' Special Survey of the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress

摘要

Students select stories to read in classrooms, in libraries, in their homes, andwherever reading materials are available. They choose different types of stories based on their purpose for reading and their personal interests. The NAEP Reader study was designed to compare the performance of students who were allowed to select a story with the performance of those who were assigned a story. Booklets containing a selection of seven stories were produced, one for grade 8 and a different selection for grade 12.