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Direct linkDavid 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
Ulla Lundqvist; Isil Erduyan – Language and Education, 2025
This study inquires how students of Arab heritage in an urban setting in Denmark interpret Islamic literacy artefacts available in their homes, and how these interpretations reflect broader faith literacy practices in the students' diaspora community. Through a linguistic ethnographic study design students have been invited to photograph literacy…
Descriptors: Arabs, Urban Areas, Self Concept, Literacy Education
Olaug Strand – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The "optimism hypothesis" claims that immigrant students do better in the Norwegian education system than their socioeconomic status would suggest, due to the strong educational aspirations that immigrant parents might have for their children. Grounded in an educational equity paradigm, this study aims to test this hypothesis by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests, Grade 4
Chen, Jianan; van Laar, Saskia; Braeken, Johan – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
A general validity and survey quality concern with student questionnaires under low-stakes assessment conditions is that some responders will not genuinely engage with the questionnaire, often with more random response patterns as a result. Using a mixture IRT approach and a meta-analytic lens across 22 educational systems participating in TIMSS…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Download full textKandeel, Refat Abdelsamad Abouelgheat – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The study aimed to determine the levels of mathematics proficiency among Saudi learners and to compare them with the learners' levels of the first country globally (B-S-J-Z -- China) and regionally (UAE) according to the results of PISA 2018, as well as to identify some of the learners' characteristics that affected their results and their…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
