Assessments

Assessment is a powerful tool and one of the cornerstones of Book Trust™ programs. Evaluation strengthens the program’s effectiveness and helps us fully understand how Book Trust affects each child, participating school, and family. Assessment also keeps us in touch with our most important volunteers—teachers.

The questions we set out to answer are important to the field of literacy. We use our original research to contribute to knowledge in that area.

Assessments 2009/2010 (sample)

Assessments 2008/2009
Assessments 2007/2008
Assessments 2006/2007
Assessments 2005/2006
Assessments 2004/2005

Assessments 2008/2009 (preliminary)

• Daily reading. The 2006/2007 end-of-year survey revealed that Book Trust participants "graduated" from the program reading at home on average more than 45 minutes each day - and double that on days when they are engrossed in a good story.
• Free-reading over the week...this means that 97% of surveyed Book Trust participants met or exceeded current research-based recommendations that children free-read at least two hours per week in order to build fluency. Their teachers and academic progress back them up. Even more remarkable, these results were from a school where nearly 100% of the population is from low-income families and over half are English language learners.
• Reading affinity. Only 5% of the surveyed group claimed they did not like reading.
• Sibling reading. 82% of the same group reported that they share books with others; over 60% either read books to siblings or let siblings read their books; a total of at least 75 individual siblings shared our 73 respondents' books. In general, we double our reach via sibling usage.

Assessments 2007/2008
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Assessments 2006/2007
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Assessments 2005/2006
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Assessments 2004/2005
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