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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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National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a study of 15-year-old students' performance in reading, mathematics, and science literacy conducted every 3 years. The PISA 2018 results provide a global view of U.S. students' performance compared to their peers in nearly 80 countries and education systems. By design, PISA aims to…
Descriptors: Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education, Achievement Tests
Shakeel, M. Danish; Peterson, Paul E. – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2021
Principals (policy makers) have debated the progress in U.S. student performance for a half century or more. Informing these conversations, survey agents have administered seven million psychometrically linked tests in math and reading in 160 waves to national probability samples of selected cohorts born between 1954 and 2007. This study is the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Race, Ethnicity
Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, 2023
Each year, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) releases a list of scientific advances that represent significant progress in the field of autism research. The "Summary of Advances" provides short, plain language summaries of the top research breakthroughs selected by the IACC from a pool of research articles nominated by…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Research, Screening Tests, Clinical Diagnosis
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Green, K.; Tonnessen, F. E.; Tambs, K.; Thoresen, M.; Bjertness, E. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
In 15-16 year olds from Oslo, Norway, we investigated the occurrence of self-reported dyslexia and reading/writing difficulties (RWD), and we measured dyslexic symptoms using the "Duvan" dyslexia screening test. The prevalence of self-reported dyslexia was 8.2%, while 10.4% reported severe or moderate RWD. The group of self-reported…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Screening Tests
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Lorentzen, Catherine; Ommundsen, Yngvar; Jenum, Anne Karen; Holme, Ingar – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
This study examines whether a community-based physical activity intervention influenced movement in stages of change in physical activity in an adult population, whether any such effect was mediated by psychosocial influences, and whether any such mediations were moderated by sociodemographic or anthropometric factors. The 3-year-long…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Intervention, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level