International meeting of reading literacy researchers in Jyväskylä (10th August 2015)
On Monday 10th of August, researchers from over 50 countries gather for a meeting concerning an international reading literacy study (PIRLS 2016) in Jyväskylä Paviljonki. PIRLS, like PISA, is an international assessment study but the only study that examines the reading literacy skills of primary school students. There are approximately 130 participants in the meeting that will last until Friday.
– It’s wonderful to have these reading literacy experts from different countries here in Jyväskylä, especially now at the start of the new school year. It reminds us how extremely important reading literacy is all around the world but also how different the circumstances, where children learn how to read, are. We all have a mutual goal here, to make sure that children all over the world receive such education in reading literacy that they will find their own place in life, says researcher and the national coordinator of PIRLS Inga Arffman from the Finnish Institute for Educational Research.
