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Direct linkSadao Otsuka; Toshiya Murai – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
There is widespread concern about declining literacy skills in recent young Japanese. The present study investigated how higher-level reading and writing proficiencies are underpinned by basic literacy skills in Japanese adolescents. From a large database of the most popular literacy exams in Japan, we retrospectively analyzed word- and text-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Test Score Decline, Data
Thomas, Damon P. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
The rapid decline in Australian students' performance on the "National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy" (NAPLAN) writing test is an issue of national concern. This paper presents the first investigation into patterns of achievement and progress on the NAPLAN writing test across the tested year levels (3, 5, 7 and 9) between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Literacy, Writing Tests
Cosgrove, Jude; Cartwright, Fernando – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2014
The PISA 2009 results for Ireland indicated a large decline in reading literacy scores since PISA 2000 (the largest of 38 countries). The decline in mathematics scores since PISA 2003 was the second largest of 39 countries. In contrast, there was no change in science achievement since PISA 2006. These results prompted detailed investigations into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Gustafsson, Jan-Eric; Blömeke, Sigrid – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim is to describe the development of achievement in compulsory school in the Nordic countries from the 1960s. The study relies on published results concerning literacy and numeracy from the international large-scale assessments between 1964 and 2012. Among others, the following conclusions are drawn: (1) for most countries, a small but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Educational Development, Educational Trends
Download full textSum, Andrew – National Commission on Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2007
This presentation is devoted to four main topics: (1) the comparative performance of U.S. adults and high school students on international literacy assessments; (2) the literacy/numeracy proficiencies of the nation's adults in different educational groups and among those who recently participated in federally-funded adult education programs; (3)…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Adults, High School Students
Brooks, Greg – 1997
Surveys of literacy attainment have been going on in the United Kingdom since 1948. The main finding is that literacy standards have changed very little in that time. Among 8-year-olds (children in Year 3) in England and Wales, however, standards fell slightly in the late 1980s, and then recovered in the early 1990s. The few international…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Educational Testing, Educational Trends
