TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center executive directors Matthias von Davier and Ina V.S. Mullis discuss pending global assessments of student proficiency in math, science, and reading literacy ...

The PIRLS report found that England, Finland and Poland achieved particularly high scores in the reading tests, despite international disruption due to Covid. The latest international rankings for ...

The latest results in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study - known as Pirls - saw England's rank jump from eighth to enter the top five. Based on tests taken every five years ...

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) involved 400,000 children in almost 60 countries. PIRLS investigates children's reading skills close to the end of primary school ...

Finland's fourth-graders dropped down four places in the latest PIRLS international ranking of reading skills. Finnish students scored an average of 549 points, 17 points lower than in 2016, which the ...

“The results we see now in Pirls were in line with earlier findings. All of this is concerning and informs the government’s emphasis on addressing reading at the foundation phase,” she sai ...

Students from Qatar scored advanced results in the International Test for Measuring the Progress of Reading in the World (PIRLS) in its fifth edition of 2021 for fourth-grade students, organised ...

The new Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study (Pirls) 2021 reading results show that South African kids perform the worst of all participating countries, with the largest Covid ...

The assessment done with Grade 4 pupils reveals 81% cannot read with meaning. While South Africa has steadily improved its PIRLS results since participating in 2006, this is the first time results ...