Proficiency level descriptors for low reading proficiency: An integrative process model

Abstract: Low literacy among adolescents and adults worldwide remains a serious problem, even in economically developed countries. The consequences of low reading proficiency levels can be harmful in many ways for both the individuals concerned and their communities in terms of health, political, social and economic outcomes. While large-scale international assessments do assess reading proficiency, the data they provide for the bottom end of the scale are still somewhat undifferentiated. What is of particular concern to scholars and policymakers alike is to better understand the nature of reading difficulties among low-literate adolescents and adults. Addressing this need, the authors of this article present a new integrative process model which takes into consideration reader-related, text-related and task-related factors along different stages of the reading process that can cause reading difficulties. The process model incorporates different traditions of research on low reading proficie

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: International Review of Education ; 66 (2020) 2-3 ; 211-233

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2020
• Creator: Durda, Tabea ; Artelt, Cordula ; Lechner, Clemens ; Rammstedt, Beatrice ; Wicht, Alexandra

Further information

• DOI: 10.1007/s11159-020-09834-1
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021102113553810508496
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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