Add to ORKGPIRLS is a large-scale comparison of the reading performance of Year 4 students in 50 countries, and Year 4 was chosen because it is the point in schooling where most students transition from ‘learning to read’ to ‘reading to learn’. As the essential nature of their relationship with reading naturally changes, it becomes important to monitor not only students’ progress but also how they feel about reading. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Deputy CEO (Research) Dr Sue Thomson looks at what else PIRLS results reveal about Australia’s relationship with reading
Reading skills are a prerequisite for success in all academic areas, including mathematics and scien...
Reading engagement is associated with reading for pleasure, in which engaged readers are those who w...
Reading for pleasure, a term more commonly used in England than elsewhere, is essentially volitional...
The Progress in International Reading Study – PIRLS for short – has been running since 2001, with Au...
The most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey measured the attitudes ...
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an international study of reading li...
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an ongoing, cyclical international study...
Australia’s performance on PIRLS was not as high as might have been thought, given that our students...
Using hierarchical linear models, this study probes into student, family, teacher, and schools’ var...
What do Year 4 students think about reading? Is it fun? Do they think they learn anything? Sue Thoms...
Being literate is fundamental for learning most school subjects. The International Association for t...
This paper summarises the findings from an ‘enjoyment ’ survey administered to approximately 6300 Ne...
Education systems worldwide face the challenge of balancing a desire to raise young readers’ attainm...
Mullis et al. (2006) claim that "PIRLS will provide a wealth of information that can be used not onl...
Analysis of PIRLS data on liking reading and SES revealed five consistent patterns: (1) 'basline': ...
Reading skills are a prerequisite for success in all academic areas, including mathematics and scien...
Reading engagement is associated with reading for pleasure, in which engaged readers are those who w...
Reading for pleasure, a term more commonly used in England than elsewhere, is essentially volitional...
The Progress in International Reading Study – PIRLS for short – has been running since 2001, with Au...
The most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey measured the attitudes ...
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an international study of reading li...
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an ongoing, cyclical international study...
Australia’s performance on PIRLS was not as high as might have been thought, given that our students...
Using hierarchical linear models, this study probes into student, family, teacher, and schools’ var...
What do Year 4 students think about reading? Is it fun? Do they think they learn anything? Sue Thoms...
Being literate is fundamental for learning most school subjects. The International Association for t...
This paper summarises the findings from an ‘enjoyment ’ survey administered to approximately 6300 Ne...
Education systems worldwide face the challenge of balancing a desire to raise young readers’ attainm...
Mullis et al. (2006) claim that "PIRLS will provide a wealth of information that can be used not onl...
Analysis of PIRLS data on liking reading and SES revealed five consistent patterns: (1) 'basline': ...
Reading skills are a prerequisite for success in all academic areas, including mathematics and scien...
Reading engagement is associated with reading for pleasure, in which engaged readers are those who w...
Reading for pleasure, a term more commonly used in England than elsewhere, is essentially volitional...