How does PIRLS compare to the NAEP fourth-grade reading assessment?
• Two studies have compared PIRLS and NAEP in terms of their measurement frameworks and the reading passages and questions included in the assessments. The first study, A Content Comparison of the NAEP and PIRLS Fourth-Grade Reading Assessments (852KB), compared PIRLS 2001 with NAEP and the second study, Comparing PIRLS and PISA with NAEP in Reading, Mathematics, and Science (231KB), compared PIRLS 2006 with PISA and NAEP. The studies found the following similarities and differences: Similarities • PIRLS and NAEP call for students to develop interpretations, make connections across text, and evaluate aspects of what they have read. • PIRLS and NAEP use literary passages drawn from children’s storybooks and informational texts as the basis for the reading assessment. • PIRLS and NAEP use multiple-choice and constructed-response questions with similar distributions of these types of questions. Differences • PIRLS reading passages are, on average, shorter than fourth grade NAEP reading pa
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