| INTERNATIONAL READING PERFORMANCE: Average combined reading literacy scale scores of 4th-graders, by educational jurisdiction: 2006 |
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1 Hong Kong SAR is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China. |
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2 Met guidelines for sample participation rates only after replacement schools were included. |
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3 Did not meet guidelines for sample participation rates after replacement schools were included. |
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NOTE: Jurisdictions were required to assess students who were in the grade that represented 4 years of formal schooling, counting from the first year of primary or basic education. In the United States and most educational jurisdictions, this corresponds to grade 4. See supplemental note 5 for more information on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). The PIRLS international scale average is set at 500 with a standard deviation of 100. |
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SOURCE: Baer, J., Baldi, S., Ayotte, K., and Green, P. (2007). The Reading Literacy of U.S. Fourth-Grade Students in an International Context: Results From the 2001 and 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) (NCES 2008-017), data from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), 2006. |
