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Øystein Gilje – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Over the last few years, Norway's lower secondary education has increasingly integrated one device for each student, reflecting broader technological trends in the Western world. To plan for learning and assessment in one-to-one classrooms, this article advocates for an ecological approach by elaborating on the term "educational…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Technological Literacy
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Renée Claes; Jana Laga; Katrijn Denies; Nele Bleukx; Jonas Dockx; Hilde Van Keer; Koen Aesaert – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Background: Providing a rich home literacy environment (HLE) is considered to contribute to the development of students' reading comprehension. However, less research attention has been given to the underlying mechanisms that influence this relationship, including potential mediating characteristics. The present study aims to assess whether…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension
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David D. Curtis; Peter Nielsen – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
The reading literacy skills of Australian adolescents, as measured in successive PISA waves, have declined since 2000. Literacy achievement is not low by international standards, but it is lower in Australia than it is in Anglophone countries with which we compare ourselves, e.g. Canada. Using PISA 2018 and PIRLS 2021 data, we investigated both…
Descriptors: Literacy, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Matthias von Davier, Editor; Ann Kennedy, Editor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) has been monitoring international trends in reading achievement among fourth-grade students for 25 years. As a critical point in a student's education, the fourth year of schooling establishes the foundations of literacy, with reading becoming increasingly central to learning across all…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment
Ariel Lindorff; Jamie Stiff; Heather Kayton – UK Department for Education, 2024
This report outlines the results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) in England. PIRLS is an international comparative study directed by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. The aim of PIRLS is to assess and compare the reading performance of pupils in their fourth year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Grade 4, International Assessment
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Pongprapan Pongsophon – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study investigates the student- and school-level predictors of reading performance across five top-performing countries in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021. Utilising a multilevel analysis, the research examines the influence of cognitive development, socio-cultural contexts and educational environments on…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development