PIRLS and ePIRLS 2016 Test content and Irish pupils’ performance
Eivers, EemerORCID: 0000-0001-8753-0781 and Delaney, Mary
(2018)
PIRLS and ePIRLS 2016 Test content and Irish pupils’ performance.
Other.
Educational Research Centre. ISBN 978 0 900440 71 7
This report examines performance on reading items included as part of PIRLS 2016 (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) and its related online reading assessment, ePIRLS. It has a particular focus on the responses of pupils in Ireland, including items on which Irish pupils performed particularly well or poorly, and on which gender differences were markedly different to the general pattern of girls outperforming boys (in Ireland, and internationally)