Contextualized and Comparative Language Differences in the Literacy Assessment of U.S. and Canadian Youth

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: International Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to contextualize and compare differences in reading literacy between U.S. and Canadian youth on the PISA assessment, both before and after controlling for students’ demographic characteristics.

Authors

• Patriann Smith, Texas Tech University

• Rahat Zaidi, University of Calgary

• Jaehoon Lee, Texas Tech University

• Rong Chang, University of Houston

• Paul Frazier, Texas Tech University