‘I Hate to Read When I Don’t Have To’: Results from a Longitudinal Study of High School Students’ Reading Interests

Keywords

high school students, reading habits, young adult literature

Abstract

Are high school students reading? If so, what are they reading? What are they required to read? What do they read for pleasure? What general categories of books do students claim to like? Do YA books have a place in the elective or required reading done by high school students? Hoping to find some concrete answers to these questions, Chris conducted a reading interest survey among ninth through twelfth graders at a local high school in 1982 when he was a graduate student at Arizona State University. In 1990 and again in 1997, he administered the identical survey to similar populations at the same school. Now with survey data collected over a 15 year span, we've crunched the numbers to answer those initial questions and to see how, if at all, reading habits have changed in the past decade and a half.

Original Publication Citation

“‘I Hate to Read When I Don’t Have To’: Results from a Longitudinal Study of High School Students’ Reading Interests,” The ALAN Review 28.3 (Spring/Summer 2001): 49-57. (with Lisa Hale).

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2001

Publisher

The ALAN Review

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

English

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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