scholarly journals Preparing Contemporary Reading/Literacy Specialists: Pairing Research and Standards

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Swan Dagen ◽  
Aimee Morewood ◽  
Susan Taylor ◽  
Christina Glance ◽  
Angela Curfman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Literacy

scholarly journals Disentangling general achievement levels and subject-specific strengths and weaknesses in mathematics, reading, and science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olesya Gladushyna ◽  
Rolf Strietholt ◽  
Isa Steinmann
Keyword(s):  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Performance Levels ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mathematics And Science ◽  
Achievement Levels

AbstractThe paper uses data from the combined TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) and PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) assessment in 2011 to explore the subject-specific strengths and weaknesses among fourth grade students worldwide. Previous research came to the conclusion that students only differed in overall achievement levels and did not exhibit subject-specific strengths and weaknesses. This research did, however, not control for differences in overall performance levels when searching for profile differences. Therefore, the present study uses factor mixture analysis to study qualitatively different performance profiles in mathematics, reading, and science while controlling for differences in performance levels. Our findings suggest that the majority of students do not show pronounced strengths and weaknesses and differ mainly in performance levels across mathematics, reading, and science. At the same time, a smaller share of students does indeed show pronounced subject-specific strengths and weaknesses. This result does not represent an artefact, but we find clear and theory-conforming associations between the identified profiles and covariates. We find evidence for cross-country differences in the frequency of subject-specific strengths and weaknesses and gender differences, as well as differences between students who do not or only sometimes speak the language of test at home.

scholarly journals Development of Reading Literacy Based on the Work of Textbooks (Workbooks)

2015 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 668-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Košek Bartošová ◽  
Anna Plovajková ◽  
Tereza Podnecká
Keyword(s):  
Reading Literacy

REFLECTION ON READING LITERACY IN THE CONTEX OF THE CHALLENGES OF THE NEW DIGITAL DECADE

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Lubomira Parijkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Literacy Survey ◽  
Theoretical Overview

Reading literacy has changed its character in recent decades. It increasingly goes beyond the simple skills of decoding text and retrieving information. The possibilities for skillful navigation in the information’s sea, for extracting reliable information in a „post-truth“ situation, for dealing with infodemic are among the characteristics of reading literacy today. This report provides a theoretical overview of the literature, which presents the latest policies to stimulate reading literacy, understood as critical thinking and working with different types of texts, including digital. The report also presents and analyzes the results of the 2018 PIS A literacy survey of 15-year-old students. Emphasis is placed on the performance of Bulgarian students and comparison with previous research results. Reading literacy is invariably related to digital literacy, the results of the authors research in this direction are also presented. Basic recommendations to teachers for the formation of reading literacy and critical thinking of students are done.

Reading literacy: on the problem of measuring language ability

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Atirkul E. Agmanova ◽  
Alyona A. Rubas
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
School Education ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Functional Literacy ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Implementation Of The Strategy

We discuss the problems of measuring the results of reading literacy in the context of the Kazakh academic discourse. Possible formulations of test items are analyzed, aimed at checking the implementation of the strategy for the development of functional literacy. The problem under consideration is very relevant in the context of the modernization of the school education system in Kazakhstan.

Reading literacy and periphrastic capacity in the context of individual language development

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
E. V. Arkhipova ◽  
L. V. Lagunova
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Informational Texts ◽  
Pedagogical Discourse ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
New Information ◽  
Didactic Texts ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Russian Language

The aim of the study was to develop linguistic and methodological theoretical aspects of training the skill of paraphrasing, which constitutes an important element of reading literacy. To this end, the authors reviewed research and educational publications in the field of teaching the Russian language and conducted a pedagogical experiment to analyse pedagogical processes. Interrelation between the infosphere and axiosphere of Russian language lessons within the pedagogical discourse involves the division of didactic texts into informational and axiological, including modern linguistic and ethnographic texts that manifest Russian cultural concepts in the new information age. It is shown that various aspects of teaching paraphrasing and interpretation techniques on the basis of informational texts have already been elucidated quite efficiently. However, formation of the axiological component of reading literacy (teaching to paraphrase on the basis of linguo-ethnographic texts) has been undertaken within the framework of the present study for the first time. These issues should be considered comprehensively, in the context of language and values-based development of a personality.

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