Abstract The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is the world's largest
international assessment of primary-aged students' reading comprehension. However …

The main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of formal teacher competence on
pupils' reading achievement. The data comes from the Swedish participation in PIRLS 2001 …

Teachers' judgments about students' knowledge and skills can be global or specific
depending on the diagnostic situation during teaching. We test the relationship between …

Responding to an earlier Phi Delta Kappan article, the author rejects the argument that East
Asian students' high scores on international educational assessments come at the expense …

Background This study explored the credibility of Swedish third-grade students' self-
assessments of their reading achievement by relating those assessments to two different …

The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether and, if so, how formal teacher
competence relates to the relationship between pupil reading achievement and teachers …

The aim of the study was to examine the accuracy of Estonian teachers' and support
specialists' judgements of students' spelling skills and reading fluency and to investigate the …

Ofqual's equalities analyses last year concluded that the centre assessment grades (CAGs)
of summer 2020 did not systemically disadvantage students on the basis of their protected …

Performance-based maximal assessments have long since been the dominant method used
to obtain an index of an individual's cognitive functioning. However, the iterative nature of …