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Žaneta Džumhur, Editor; Paulína Koršnáková, Editor; Sabine Meinck, Editor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2025
This open access book presents insights into the current state of reading literacy in the Dinaric region, namely the education systems in Albania, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. A collection of analyses reveals factors influencing this key capacity of young pupils. Using data from IEA's Progress in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Reading Tests, International Assessment
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Topping, K. J.; Samuels, J.; Paul, T. – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
To explore whether different balances of fiction/non-fiction reading and challenge might help explain differences in reading achievement between genders, data on 45,670 pupils who independently read over 3 million books were analysed. Moderate (rather than high or low) levels of challenge were positively associated with achievement gain, but…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Gender Differences
Swain, Kristine D.; Allinder, Rose M. – Diagnostique, 1996
Three second-grade students with learning disabilities were measured twice a week for 12 weeks on 2 types of curriculum-based measurement (computer maze and oral reading) and an intervention of repeated readings was implemented. Data indicated that the repeated reading intervention affected oral reading CBM, but not performance on the maze…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Curriculum Based Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories, Intervention