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<p class="MsoNormal">Or as the Head of Mathematics in the high school I taught in for five years put it, after maths had great results in the national exam taken at age 16, while results for English (loading mostly on writing, and reading comprehension) were
comparatively poorer, “Don’t blame yourself, Colin. The maths exam tests things that we can teach. The English exam tests a whole load of factors, most of which you can’t teach.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><reading-hall-of-fame-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of David Olson <david.olson@utoronto.ca><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 22 November 2021 at 03:25<br>
<b>To: </b>P Pearson <ppearson@berkeley.edu>, Thomas Sticht <tgsticht@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>reading hall of fame <Reading-hall-of-fame@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Toward Improving Reading by Age 17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:white">What inferences would we draw from other large data bases of 12th grade readers, such as state tests scores where the scores count for something at the level of the individual reader. Or better yes something like
SBAC which may be able to aggregate across </span>states? Or even the large norming samples from standardized tests for older readers, like the Nelson Denny. Testing companies should be able to do trend analysis of their own tests over time, right?
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 2:54 PM Thomas Sticht <<a href="mailto:tgsticht@gmail.com">tgsticht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David, tim and All: As I mentioned earlier, I have been puzzled by why there has been growth in average reading scores on the NAEP tests at grades 4 and 8, but not grade 12. Tim has suggested that loss of concern about scoring well may
have some invoice on this finding. The information he provides may be a contributing factor to the lack of increases in 12th grade scores over the last half century.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I earlier noticed that scores at the 4th and 8th grades seem to have increased over the last half century, and David calls attention to the importance of background factors that may have played some role in preventing increases in the 12th
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<p class="MsoNormal">As of the present time, I don't know of any systematic research into just why test scores at the 12th grade level (17 year olds) have not shown some increase too. i don't think asking about this puts any blame on anyone, but it does indicate
a lack of understanding that just might help improve the reading abilities of those young people who are aiming to graduate, find good work or go to college and later get a good job.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 4:52 PM David Reinking <<a href="mailto:reinkin@clemson.edu" target="_blank">reinkin@clemson.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tom, Thanks for again providing an opportunity to consider interpretations of flat NAEP scores, a topic discussed on this list about 3 years ago in response to another of your reflective postings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">One interpretation suggested in that previous discussion was that flat test scores might be viewed positively as “holding our own” in the face of greater challenges created by changing demographics (e.g., more linguistic
and cultural diversity) and greater economic disparities. Berliner (2014) has pointed out that in-school factors, broadly in aggregate, account for roughly only 20% of differences in academic achievement, whereas out-of-school factors account for around 60%
(e.g., family income; medical care; level of food insecurity; language spoken at home; etc.).
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">It was also pointed out in that previous discussion too that, across decades, NAEP scores indicate some small, but encouraging, progress in closing the gap between more- and less-advantages students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, it was pointed out that we should take care in suggesting that flat NAEP scores are an indictment of teachers, schools, or research. Legitimizing such interpretations provides ready ammunition for those who
wish to lay blame on teachers, schools, and teacher educators, giving dodge to addressing the more complex, difficult, and controversial social factors that inhibit higher achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Berliner, D. (2014). Effects of inequality and poverty vs. teachers and schooling on America’s youth.
<i>Teachers College Record</i>, <i>115</i>(12).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">11/18/2021</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Can We Improve Reading By Age 17?</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Tom Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Literacy (Ret.)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">In 1984, following a six year gestation period, the first Handbook of Reading Research appeared. Edited by P. David Pearson and others and printed by Longman’s
the 891 page tome came in the wake of what Preface writer Robert Dykstra estimated as some 1000 pieces of published reading research arriving each year.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">That same year of 1984, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported that the average reading score for 17 year old's was 289, up four points
from when the first NAEP score of 285 was recorded for 17 year old's 13 years earlier 1n 1971.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">In 1991, the second Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. 2, now at over 1100 pages, was published by Longman’s with Rebecca Barr and others as editors. This time
the preface observed that, “Reading research, we found, moves at such a frenetic pace that between the moments of conceptualization and publication, particular fields of inquiry had risen to a level which justified a separate chapter. …There are fields that
did not seem appropriate as separate chapters then, but they do now.”</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">In 1992, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported that the average reading score for 17 year old's was 290, up five points from when the
first NAEP score of 285 was recorded for this age group 21 years earlier in 1971.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">In 2000, the third Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. 3, with some 1024 pages, was published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates with Michael Kamil and others as editors.
The Preface notes that this third volume has two major themes: (1) broadening the definition of reading, and (2) broadening the reading research agenda.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Just a year earlier, in 1999, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported that the average reading score for 17 year old's was 288, down two
points from 1992 but still up three points from when the first NAEP score of 285 was reported for 17 year old's in 1971.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">In 2010, the fourth Handbook of Reading Research, Vol.4, with some 800 pages, was published by Routledge with Michael Kamil and others as editors. The Preface discusses
efforts by the federal government to try to improve instruction in reading and reports, “The National Reading Panel (NRP) reported that there were over 100,000 research studies produced between 1966 and 2000, with some 15,000 prior to that time. These numbers
illustrate the exponential growth in the research base stimulated by both research funding and urgent concern for improving reading instruction.”</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"> In 2012, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported that the average reading score for 17 year old's was 287, down one point from 1999 but
still up two points from when the first NAEP score of 285 was recorded for this age group 41 years earlier in 1971.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">In 2019, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported that the average reading score for 17 year old's was back down to 285, the same as it was
when the first NAEP test results were recorded for this age group 48 years earlier in 1971. The Nations Report Card in Reading for 2019 reported, “The average reading score for twelfth-grade students was lower in 2019 compared to the last assessment in 2015.
The nearly 30-year trend line shows that the 2019 average reading score for twelfth-graders was lower than it was approximately a decade ago in 2009, not significantly different from 2002, and lower than the first assessment year in 1992.”
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<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"> In 2020, the fifth Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. 5, with 540 pages, was published by Routledge with <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledge.com%2Fsearch%3Fauthor%3DElizabeth%2520Birr%2520Moje&data=04%7C01%7Cdavid.olson%40utoronto.ca%7Cbdff5e2e140c457002d608d9ad48a006%7C78aac2262f034b4d9037b46d56c55210%7C0%7C0%7C637731352135418427%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=oYqBNo1x0pOE3w4PXstQ4UK1aEJyBkHQqYqJx0PDt%2FM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2962FF">Elizabeth
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practice in any sustained or scaled way?”</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">This is a good, if somewhat belated, question given the over 115,000 and more research studies before 2000 and hundreds if not thousands of research studies since
2000, five volumes of Handbooks of Reading Research, a National Reading Panel report, federal investments of hundreds of millions of dollars in research and guidance in reading instructional practices, and decades of NAEP testing showing some modest gains
in 4th and 8th grade reading scores but which seemingly disappear and result in an essentially flat line in reading performance of 17 year old's over the last half century.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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average reading abilities in half a century, given the tremendous amounts of money that has been spent on trying to improve the teaching and learning of reading, we need to know why. The present revival of the so-called “reading wars” and “science of reading”
indicates that issues surrounding the teaching and learning of reading are still with us, and whether the findings of research rarely find their way into practice, or whether the research findings are not up to the task of improving practice is yet to be discovered.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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