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The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an international study of reading achievement in fourth graders. It is conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). "It is designed to measure children’s reading literacy achievement, to provide a baseline for future studies of trends in achievement, and to gather information about children’s home and school experiences in learning to read."〔()〕 PIRLS 2006 tested 215,000 students from 46 educational systems.〔An Overview of PIRLS 2006: Design, Results and Subsequent Analysis, Oliver Neuschmidt, IEA Data Processing and Research Center Ina V.S. Mullis and Michael O. Martin, TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center Boston College, http://www.iaea2008.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/ca/digitalAssets/180462_Neuschmidt.pdf〕 PIRLS 2011(the most recent cycle) testing has been done and the results were published December 2012.〔http://www.timss.org/〕 “The reading achievement results present each country with an opportunity to examine educational policies and practices against a globally-defined benchmark, while the report also contains rich information about children's early literacy experiences and reading instruction" said PIRLS International Study Directors Ina V.S. Mullis and Michael O. Martin of Boston College.〔()〕 == History == PIRLS is one of the largest international collections of reading literacy. Studies of reading literacy had been conducted prior to the study of 2001. PIRLS is the successor to the IEA studies that started in 1970 and continued to 1991 with the Reading Literacy Study. The study of 2001 started the trend for the PIRLS cyclical testing. The study has a frequency of five years. By administering the test every five years, it allows countries to monitor their children's literacy achievement. Also in 2001, background information about the students and schools were collected. In 2006 the study was designed to measure trends in children's reading literacy achievement and policies and practices related to literacy. It also assessed a range of reading comprehension strategies for two major reading purposes: literary and informational and it assessed students enrolled in the fourth grade. Of the participants in PIRLS 2006, 26 countries and 2 Canadian provinces also participated in PIRLS 2001.〔http://www.iea.nl/pirls_2006.html〕 For PIRLS 2011 cycle newly developed reading assessment passages and questions were combined with a selection of secure assessment passages and questions from 2001 and 2006, the study offered a state-of-the-art assessment of reading comprehension that allowed for measurement of changes since 2001.〔http://www.iea.nl/pirls_2011.html〕 == Cycles == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Progress in International Reading Literacy Study」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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