Abstract

Abstract This article recapitulates the history of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Reading Literacy Study and places it in the context of other IEA studies of learning in the mother tongue (The Six‐Subject Surveys of Reading and Literature, the Pre‐primary Study, and the Written Composition Study). The development of the study from 1973 to 1989 is described in some detail as are the general principles under which the study was designed. The study is also related to general policy issues in literacy education around the world.

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