"Methods and Procedures in PIRLS 2016" documents the development of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) assessments and questionnaires and describes the methods used in sampling, translation verification, data collection, database construction, and the construction of the achievement and context questionnaire…

Using PISA 2009, an international education database, this study compares gifted and talented (GT) students in three groups with normal (non-GT) students by examining student characteristics, reading, schooling, learning methods, and use of strategies for understanding and memorizing. Results indicate that the GT and non-GT gender distributions…

Discussion of distance education and use of the Internet focuses on the development of a prototype distance-learning system at the University of Macau called DESI (Distance Education System for the Internet) that makes use of replicated databases and speech synthesis to overcome some of the limitations of Internet-based systems. (Author/LRW)