TY - BOOK ID - 137248915 TI - Writing Instruction in U.S. Classrooms: Diverging Perspectives for Teachers Across Content Areas PY - 2020 PB - Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137248915 AB - Writing is a fundamental skill that is essential for student learning and academic success and career opportunities. Writing also has been found to be a key process that supports the development of numerous academic skills such as reading comprehension, and writing practices have been linked to improvements in content area knowledge across a range of academic disciplines such as math, science, and social studies. However, standardized assessment results suggest persistently low levels of writing ability, with only a quarter of students in the 8th and 12th grades scoring proficient or above on the most recent writing test administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. New results from the RAND Corporation's American Educator Panels (AEP) expand on these findings. The AEP asked a nationally representative sample of 3,744 secondary teachers about their preparedness to teach and assess writing skills and their levels of support in the classroom. ER -