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Re: 2016 PIRLS results
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:47 am
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Professor Max Coltheart drew these note-worthy figures to the attention of people via Twitter:
tinyurl.com/ydxmlara Fig 4.5:Year 1 Phonics Check performance almost perfect predictor of Yr 5 PIRLS reading performance. E.g. children scoring 10/48 on phonics check got 500 on PIRLS, those scoring 32/40 on check got 555. Hard to imagine better vindication of phonics check.
Re: 2016 PIRLS results
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:30 pm
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Flagged up by teacher Valma Adams, this heartfelt piece is a response to the results of the 2016 PIRLS assessment in Africa:
http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... 1779#p1779
Re: 2016 PIRLS results
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:48 pm
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Thank you to Susan Godsland for flagging up this report:
Troubling trends:
An international decline in attitudes toward reading
https://www.iea.nl/sites/default/files/ ... trends.pdf
SUMMARY
• Trend results from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) show a decline from 2001 through 2016 in most countries in fourth graders’ and their parents’ reading attitudes, as measured by students like reading and parents like reading scale scores.
• Average students like reading scale scores, as reported by the students themselves, decreased between 2001 and 2016 in 13 of the 18 countries that participated in all cycles of PIRLS.
• Students like reading scores, on average, only increased in England and Iran between 2001 and 2016 and remained essentially constant in the United States, New Zealand, and Hong Kong.
• Parents like reading scores, on average, also decreased in 14 of the 16 countries that participated in all cycles of PIRLS.