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Conducted as part of the 1992 Integrated Reading Performance Record (IRPR), a study investigated the oral reading proficiency of a subgroup of students participating in the 1992 reading assessment conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Subjects, 1,136 fourth graders, read aloud one passage and were audiotaped as they responded to a series of questions about habits and attitudes related to both instructional and recreational reading. Subjects also completed measures of fluency and comprehension. Major findings were that (1) much can be learned and documented about children's abilities by listening to them read aloud; (2) 55% of the subjects were considered to be fluent, but only 13% could be described as consistently reading with appropriate phrasing and with at least minimal expressiveness; (3) oral reading fluency demonstrated a significant relationship with reading comprehension; (4) fluent reading appeared to be related to certain literacy activities; (5) 57% of the students were at least 96% accurate in their oral reading of the passage; (6) 61% of the students read the passage at a rate of at least 100 words per minute; and (7) accuracy and rate displayed some relationship to reading fluency. (Contains 11 tables and two figures of data. Appendixes present the interview guide, and a description of the procedures and methods of the IRPR.) (RS)