A major global test of year 4 students’ reading abilities has found a decline in performance among Victorian schoolchildren, even as results in other states held steady.
has found a decline in performance among Victorian schoolchildren, even as results in other states held steady.
Victoria was also one of a handful of participating jurisdictions where 100 per cent of schools missed more than eight weeks of normal instruction.Results of the 2021 test were published worldwide on Tuesday afternoon. PIRLS is the only major periodic global assessment of student progress that was not postponed during the pandemic.PIRLS 2021 assessed the literacy of more than 400,000 students from 57 countries, including a nationally representative sample of 5487 Australian year 4 students.
The results indicated that Victoria’s focus on giving special assistance to students who were at risk of falling behind after remote learning had paid off, she said. “You might presume that children who were doing well were not given the additional challenges they might have otherwise been given,” Fahey said.
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