| Author(s) |
This report is the product of a collaborative effort between the countries participating in PISA, the experts and institutions working within the framework of the PISA Consortium, and the OECD Secretariat. |
| Date |
2010-01-01 |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
Volume III, Learning to Learn: Student Engagement, Strategies and Practices, explores the information gathered on students’ levels of engagement in reading activities and attitudes towards reading and learning. It describes 15-year-olds’ motivation, engagement and strategies to learn. |
| Table of contents |
Executive summary...........................................................................13
Introduction to PISA..........................................................................17
Reader’s Guide.................................................................................23
Chapter 1 Effective Learners, Proficient Readers..........................................25
How PISA 2009 examines engagement in reading and approaches to learning.........28
Engagement in reading activities and reading performance...............................29
• Are students who enjoy reading better readers?.........................................29
• The association between time spent reading for enjoyment and reading performance..........32
• The association between the material students read and reading performance..................34
• On line reading and reading performance of print texts..............................................39
Approaches to learning and reading performance..................................................42
• The association between strategies to understand and remember information and reading performance.................42
• The association between strategies to summarise information and reading performance............45
• The association between the use of memorisation, elaboration and control strategies
and reading performance.................................................................................48
Do observed associations mirror the demographic and socio-economic background of students?....52
• What do high-performing readers look like?.............................................................52
Chapter 2 The Reading and Learning Habits of 15-Year-Olds..........................................59
Profiles of readers............................................................................................60
The reading habits of 15-year-old students...............................................................63
• How often do students read for enjoyment?............................................................63
• What do students read for enjoyment?..................................................................70
• How much do students enjoy reading?....................................................................76
Approaches to learning........................................................................................77
• Awareness of effective strategies to understand and remember information.......................77
• Awareness of effective strategies to summarise information..........................................79
• Use of memorisation, elaboration and control strategies................................................79
Chapter 3 Tackling gender and socio-economic inequalities in reading....................................85
Inequalities in reading performance and the role of engagement in reading and learning strategies....86
How reading habits and approaches to learning mediate the gender gap in reading performance.......88
How reading habits and approaches to learning mediate socio-economic inequities in reading performance....91
The underachievement of disadvantaged boys..........................................................................94
Policy Implications...........................................................................................................97
Engagement in reading matters.......................................................................................97
Approaches to learning matter.......................................................................................98
Levelling the playing field matters..................................................................................98
References............................................................................................................101
Annex A Te chnical Background.................................................................................................................................................................105
Annex A1: Construction of reading scales and indices from the student, school and parent context
questionnaires..................................................................................................................................................................................................106
Annex A2: T he PISA target population, the PISA samples and the definition of schools........................................................114
Annex A3: Standard errors, significance tests and sub-group comparisons.....................................................................................127
Annex A4: Quality assurance..........................................................................................................................................................................................129
Annex A5: L atent profile analysis.................................................................................................................................................................................131
Annex B Table s of results...................................................................................................................................................................................133
Annex B1: Results for countries and economies................................................................................................................................................134
Annex B2: Results for regions within countries..................................................................................................................................................227
Annex C The devel opment and imple mentation of PISA – A coll aborative effort..........................261 |
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