Progress in Reading Literacy Study 2021 (PIRLS/IGLU)
The Progress in Reading Literacy Study (German: Internationale Grundschul-Lese-Untersuchung [IGLU]) 2021 provides internationally comparative data on how well children read by assessing students’ reading achievement at the fourth grade. In Germany, approximately 4,000 students, their parents, teachers, and school principals provide considerable background information on how the German education system provides educational opportunities to their students, as well as the factors that influence how students use these opportunities. PIRLS has been a central element of the German national educational monitoring since 2001; PIRLS 2021 will be the fifth cycle in the PIRLS framework. Its focus is on reading achievement and its relationship with characteristics of the students (e.g., motivation to read), their instruction (e.g., instructional strategies for reading), their schools (e.g., school climate and resources), and their families (e.g., the home environment for reading). Trend results across assessments permit countries to monitor the effectiveness of their educational systems in a global context.
In Germany, the Progress in Reading Literacy Study will be conducted in a consortium of a number of researchers from different scientific disciplines (Educational Science, Psychology, Didactics). The focus is on an interdisciplinary approach in close cooperation with international partners. The national scientific consortium consists of Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany (Institute for Research on School Development, TU Dortmund) as National Research Coordinator, Prof. Dr. Andreas Frey, Prof. Dr. Frank Goldhammer, Prof. Dr. Anita Schilcher, and Prof. Dr. Tobias Stubbe.
Cooperating Partners:
, TU Dortmund
, TU Dortmund
, DIPF Frankfurt (Main)
, University of Regensburg
, Georg August University Göttingen
Duration: 03.2019 – 03.2023
Further information is available .
