Abstract
This study analyzed the relationships between individual and family cognitive factors and attitude towards reading with reading self-concept and outside reading activities and parents’ literacy that are in 4<sup>th</sup> grade Iranian students. The main of the study is based on interpretations and comprehension of PIRLS 2006. A total of 5411 students (2500 girls and 2911 boys) with average of 10.2 years old participated in PIRLS 2006 test. Reading self-concept and attitude towards reading by the student questionnaire of and outside reading activities and parents’ literacy by the questionnaire of survey of learning and reading comprehension scores were tested. The results of the study showed that all the variables of cognitive comprehension of students are significant (at the level of p<0.01). The reading parents’ literacy was the most determination variance for students’ comprehension and the reading self-concept, attitude towards reading and outside reading activities.
Highlights
Lack of evaluation of learning process is difficult to understand the dimension of student learning
The test which is used for reading literacy is called PIRLS, it’s the short form of Measurement, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and it run once every 5 years in some educational systems
Deliberations of performance of participating countries in PIRLS, provides opportunities based on data from information and implementation status of the educational systems for other countries to study, compare and to evaluate the different aspects such as; planning, methods, textbook content, organization, factors within the school, family and sociocultural conditions [21]
Summary
Lack of evaluation of learning process is difficult to understand the dimension of student learning. One of evaluation studies have been which have been done by some international organizations such as International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). The subject of these evaluations includes test subjects such as; Mathematics, Science, literacy, reading and some of eligibility. Deliberations of performance of participating countries in PIRLS, provides opportunities based on data from information and implementation status of the educational systems for other countries to study, compare and to evaluate the different aspects such as; planning, methods, textbook content, organization, factors within the school, family and sociocultural conditions [21]
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