International Activities Program - Florida's 2011 <a href='/surveys/pirls'>PIRLS</a> Results in Grade 4 Reading: A Summary

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Florida's 2011 PIRLS Results in Grade 4 Reading: A Summary

Summary

No education system had a higher average score than Florida, 4 were not measurably different, and 48 scored lower (table 1).

Higher percentages of Florida 4th-graders performed at or above each of the four PIRLS international benchmarks than the international medians (see figure 2, Highlights From PIRLS 2011). For example, 22 percent of 4th-graders in Florida performed at or above the Advanced benchmark (625) compared to the international median of 8 percent at grade 4.

Females outperformed males by 15 score points on average in reading at grade 4 (see figure 3, Highlights From PIRLS 2011).

Male and female students in Florida scored higher on average in reading than the PIRLS international scale average (table 2).

All racial and ethnic groups scored higher than the PIRLS international scale average.

All categories of public school students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch scored higher than the PIRLS international scale average.

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Table 1. Average reading scores of 4th-grade students in Florida public schools compared with other participating education systems: 2011

Education systems not measurably different from Florida
Hong Kong-CHN	Finland
Russian Federation	Singapore

Education systems lower than Florida
Northern Ireland-GBR	Lithuania
United States	Australia
Denmark	Poland
Croatia	France
Chinese Taipei-CHN	Andalusia-ESP
Ontario-CAN	Spain
Ireland	Norway
England-GBR	Belgium (French)-BEL
Canada	Romania
Alberta-CAN	Georgia
Netherlands	Malta
Czech Republic	Dubai-UAE
Sweden	Trinidad and Tobago
Italy	Azerbaijan
Germany	Iran, Islamic Rep. of
Israel	Maltese-Malta
Portugal	Colombia
Hungary	United Arab Emirates
Quebec-CAN	Saudi Arabia
Slovak Republic	Indonesia
Bulgaria	Qatar
New Zealand	Abu Dhabi-UAE
Slovenia	Oman
Austria	Morocco
NOTE: No education systems scored significantly higher than Florida-USA at p<.05.
SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), 2011.

Reporting groups	Average score
Table 2. Average reading scores of 4th-grade students in Florida public schools, by sex, race/ethnicity, and percentage of students in public school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch: 2011

PIRLS scale average	500
U.S. average	556	*
Florida average	569	*
Sex
Female	576	*
Male	561	*
Race/ethnicity
White	591	*
Black	537	*
Hispanic	564	*
Asian	604	*
Multiracial	591	*
Percentage of public school students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
Less than 10 percent	601	*
10 to 24.9 percent	610	*
25 to 49.9 percent	587	*
50 to 74.9 percent	566	*
75 percent or more	544	*
*p<.05. Difference between state score and PIRLS scale average is statistically significant. NOTE: Reporting standards were not met for American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander. Black includes African American and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin. Students who identified themselves as being of Hispanic origin were classified as Hispanic, regardless of their race. Not all race/ethnicity categories are shown but they are included in the U.S. and state totals shown throughout the report. Multiracial students are those that identify themselves with more than one race. The standard errors of the estimates are shown in table E-7 available at /pubsearch/pubsinfor.asp?pubid=2013010. SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), 2011.

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