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Manu, Mari; Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Niemi, Pekka – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
One of the aims for compulsory education is to diminish or alleviate differences in children's skills existing prior to school entry. However, a growing gender gap in reading development has increasingly been documented. Regrettably, there is scant evidence on whether differences between genders (favouring girls) have their roots in pre-reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Prereading Experience
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Cheung, Kwok-cheung; Sit, Pou-seong; Soh, Kay-cheng; Ieong, Man-kai; Mak, Soi-kei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
Reading literacy is the main focus of the international comparative study of PISA 2009 (OECD, "PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science," 2010a) based on the results of which 65 economies were arranged in a league table. PISA also gathers background information which…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, Predictor Variables, Prediction