Vítor Rosa, João Sampaio Maia and Daniela Mascarenhas members of the PISA_PT research team, published a new article in Indagatio Didactica.
In the article they present an analysis of the evolution trends of the performance on reading literacy of the Portuguese students of the 4th year of schooling within the scope of the international survey Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) (including ePIRLS in 2016), conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), taking into account its general data and the respective data for Portugal.
For this purpose, they analysed the reports and databases produced by IEA and by Instituto de Avaliação Educativa (IAVE). The results reveal that, in 2016, Portugal was in the group of participants who registered an average score higher than the central point of the PIRLS scale (500 points) but compared to 2011 that score represented a decrease. It also revealed that in 2011 girls had better achievement than boys, but that difference was practically eliminated in 2016 and that there are no significant differences between the results obtained in PIRLS and ePIRLS. Both in 2011 and in 2016, it was the Ave region that had the best results.