Reading Literacy of U.S. Fourth-Grade Students in an International Context (eBook)

Justin Baer (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2009
77 Seiten
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-62100-618-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an assessment of the reading comprehension of students in their fourth year of schooling. In 2006, PIRLS was administered to a nationally representative sample of fourth-grade students in the United States, as well as to students in 44 other jurisdictions around the world. The PIRLS assessment measures student performance on a combined reading literacy scale and on a literary subscale and informational subscale. This book compares the performance of U.S. students with their peers around the world and also examines how the reading literacy of U.S. fourth-grade students has changed since the first administration of PIRLS in 2001. Results are presented by student background characteristics (sex and race/ethnicity) and by contextual factors that may be associated with reading proficiency (school characteristics, instructional practices and teacher preparation, and the home environment for reading).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-62100-618-2 / 1621006182
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62100-618-3 / 9781621006183