Literacy

New study analysing socio-cultural factors confirms that a family’s socio-economic status and parental attitudes towards homework have direct positive effects on reading literacy of primary school students in Southeast Asia.

New ACER research has found that teacher professional learning has positively impacted teaching quality and student engagement in Vanuatu.

More than 900 Literacy and Numeracy competition entries were completed by students around Australia in Term 4 2023 and Term 1 2024.

Almost 13% of Australia’s year 4 students who took part in an international study said they had ‘never or almost never’ borrowed books from their school or local libraries.

New tool enables countries to report the proportion of children and young people reaching the global minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics.

Read our new feature about ground-breaking methods and tools developed by the GEM Centre to enable countries to monitor progress towards SDG 4.