Ta’lim va taraqqiyot

 Namangan davlat pedagogika instituti “Ta’lim va taraqqiyot” ilmiy-uslubiy jurnali
2023-yil 4-son. ISSN: 2992-9008. UDK: 37
 
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questionnaires are given to students‘ teachers and school principals to gather 
information about students‘ school experiences in developing reading literacy. 
PURPOSE 
PIRLS is a carefully constructed reading assessment, consisting of a test 
of the reading literacy of fourth-grade students and questionnaires to collect 
information pertaining to fourth-grade students' reading literacy evaluation. 
PIRLS has four goals: develop internationally valid instruments for measuring 
reading literacy suitable for establishing internationally comparable literacy 
levels in each of the participating education systems; describe on
international scale the literacy profiles of fourth-graders in school in each
participating education system; and identify the home, school and societal 
factors associated with the literacy levels and reading habits of fourth-graders 
in schools. The goal of PIRLS is to provide the best policy-relevant information 
about how to improve teaching and learning and to help young students 
become accomplished and self-sufficient readers. PIRLS always has included 
school, teacher, and student questionnaires as well as the Learning to Read 
Survey completed by students‘ parents or caregivers. The PIRLS questionnaire 
results provide a wealth of information about the home, school, and classroom 
contexts in which students learn to read. As a qualitative companion to the 
quantitative reports produced to summarize the international achievement 
and questionnaire results, each PIRLS assessment has been accompanied by 
an encyclopedia comprising chapters written by each participating country or 
benchmarking entity describing its reading curriculum and instruction. The 
chapters are published together with the results of the PIRLS Curriculum 
Questionnaire completed by each participant to provide comparative 
information across countries.
PIRLS assesses four broad-based comprehension processes within each 
of the two purposes for reading: focus on and retrieve explicitly stated 
information; and evaluated and critique content and textual elements. Also, 
PIRLS focuses on three aspects of reading literacy: purposes for reading; 
processes of comprehension; and student reading behaviors and attitudes. The 
first two aspects are measured through the PIRLS assessment components, 
which is administered to each participating student. The third dimension, 
reading behaviors and attitudes, is measured through a separate component of 
background questionnaires. 
The first aspect of the assessment component that is targeted by PIRLS 
is purposes of reading. The purposes of reading component encompasses the 
two main reasons why young students read printed materials: for literary 
experience and for the acquisition and use of information. To measure the 

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