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Reading Comprehension in Undergraduates during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Associations with Executive Function Difficulties, Reading Habits and Screen Times
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Ángel Javier Tabullo; María Florencia Chiófalo; Alejandro Javier Wainselboim – Reading Psychology, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic and its concomitant restriction measures drastically altered the routines and learning formats of students from all levels. In addition, it has been shown that pandemic-related stress negatively impacted their mental health and cognitive functioning. Undergraduates have been signaled out as one of the populations most…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Low Test Scores in Latin America: Poor Schools, Poor Families or Something Else?
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Breton, Theodore R.; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
Latin American students consistently score low on international tests of cognitive skills. In the PISA 2012 results, students in seven Latin American countries had an average score of 395 in mathematics, or about 100 points lower than the average score of 497 in four Scandinavian countries. We estimate the effect of socioeconomic characteristics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Scores, Educational Quality