Review of the Literature regarding The Benefits of Student Publishing |
After I sent out media kits regarding my book Publishing with Students, If you are thinking about publishing with your students and are wondering why, read the following research. If you are trying to convince your principal of the merits of student publishing, print out a copy of this research and share it with him/her. Please e-mail me any anecdotes, thoughts, and/or pieces describing the benefits of student publishing, and I will post as many as I can in Teachers Talk about Why Student Publishing Matters (a future link). |
Contents 1 NAEP Writing Framework and Publishings Benefits 2 (The Publication Stage in) the Writing Process 3 Research Shows that Journalism Students Do Better
4 Implications of the 1998 Writing Report Card that 5 Publishing along with Effective Strategies Brings Best Results 6 Publication Motivates a Vast Majority of Students 7 Publication is a Powerful Means of Motivating Revision
8 Writing and Publishing for a Wider Audience
9 Publication Helps Develop the Element of Voice 10 Web-based Publishing for Students The Meteoric Rise of Computer Technology, the Internet, 11 Forums for Our Young People 12 Making A Difference in Peoples Lives around the World
13 Publication: When Student Writers Learn from Each Other
14 What Student Publishing Does to the World Touches our Hearts 15 Publishing Helps Us Understand, Come Together,
17 Why Parents Believe that Publishing is Important 18 Publication Reminds Teachers |
| Publication is important for all children. It is not the privilege of the classroom elite, the future literary scholars. Rather, it is an important mode of
literary enfranchisement for each child in the classroom. Don Graves |
Key Findings of this Review of the Literature: Research repeatedly points to publication as a beneficial and integral addition to any writing program Journalism students (tens of thousands of them) working on high school newspapers do better on grades, ACT test, AP exams, and in many other areas based on a large body of
evidence in Journalism Kids Do Better In 1998, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered the most recent assessment to approximately 160,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 12 throughout the
United States. Professors Stephens and Mandeville from Southwest Texas University wrote, The NAEP also implies that publishing writing is correlated with higher performance
levels of writing. Researchers found that 8th graders whose teachers asked them to define purpose and audience once or twice a month outperformed their peers whose teacher
never or hardly ever asked them to do so. Studies show that combining publishing with effective teaching strategies produces the best results in student writing. Virtually all students are motivated to do their very best writing and revising when writing for publication. Writing is rewriting, and the literature clearly shows that student publications have an impact on increasing students interest and efforts in editing and revising. In writing for publication, student writers are writing according to purpose and for an intended audience. The literature clearly states the powerful role that publication
plays in helping young writers learn to write and continue writing for an audience. The reason we write is to communicate, and their expanded audience gives students the
purpose for writing. Scholars advocate placing learners in situations where they use or experience disciplinary knowledge in more realistic or authentic ways than they do in traditional classrooms.
Online publishing allows teachers to place students in learning situations in which they experience academic disciplines in more authentic ways than they had previously. Research and studies show that writing produced for peers on an online network is often better than that produced for local peers and teachers. Being involved in e-mail and other online publishing projects with students from other countries help students understand different cultures. 350,000 students at 4,000 schools in more than 90 countries participate in the global telecommunications iEARN network to tackle real problems and make a difference in peoples
lives. Much of their work is published in some form. ePals Classroom Exchange connects more than 27,000 classrooms with more than 1.7 million students in 130 countries around the world. Millions of students have their writing displayed or published in various web based publishing mediums. |
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