The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of writing on student achievement.
Administrators and educators are constantly looking for ways to increase student achievement,
especially since the development of No Child Left Behind. An extensive literature review was
conducted as the basis of this study. It showed that regardless of the content area, writing is a
tool that can be used in a variety of ways to increase student understanding and learning of
subject matter. Students experienced increases in the amount of writing they produced and the
amount of writing instruction they were provided. Reading End-of-Grade Test results were
compared between eighth graders for two different academic years to see the impact of writing
on student achievement. It was found that the students who were subjected to the increase in
writing and writing instruction in their language arts class scored higher on standardized test than
those students from the previous year who did not received the treatment
