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Jerrim, John; Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar D. – Oxford Review of Education, 2020
It has long been thought that encouraging children to read is likely to be beneficial for the development of their literacy skills. However, a lot less attention has been paid to the issue of whether what students read matters for their academic progress. This paper therefore considers the association between the frequency young people read five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Material Selection, Books, Novels
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Choi, Álvaro; Jerrim, John – Comparative Education, 2016
In 2013 Spain introduced a series of educational reforms explicitly inspired by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 results. These reforms were mainly implemented in secondary education--based upon the assumption that this is where Spain's educational problems lie. This paper questions this assumption by attempting to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Educational Change, Information Utilization