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English language arts teachers most confident about their preparation and ability to teach writing

• Virtually all teachers believe that writing is important for students' academic and career success.
• English language arts (ELA) teachers were more likely than non-ELA teachers to agree that they received effective ELA training, could deliver effective ELA instruction, could assess students' ELA skills, knew what good writing instruction looked like, and had access to high-quality instructional materials.
• Non-ELA teachers were least confident about their training to teach ELA and their access to high-quality instructional materials.

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.

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