COMPARISON OF READING LITERACY SITUATION OF IRANIAN FOURTH-GRADE STUDENTS WITH PARTICIPANT COUNTRIES OF REGION IN PIRLS STUDY: SUGGESTION OF PROPER CURRICULUM

Abstract

The purpose of this research is comparative consideration of literacy situation among Iranian fourth-grade students with selected countries and suggestion of proper curriculum. To this end, from region countries, the countries that are participated in PIRLS study and their information is accessible selected for consideration and comparison. Also, for the section of proper curriculum suggestion, 12 clear-sighted persons were interviewed. The interviews performed by half structured approach and their content validity confirmed by experts and analyzed by categorization approach. The results show that the skill of literacy of Iranian fourth-grade students has acceptable advancement in comparison with most of selected countries that this advancement was more among the years of 2006-2011. Also, according to results, suggested curriculum puts its purpose on comprehension and high level cognitive processes for improving reading skill and uses various and rich contents with educational approaches and active and compound evaluation.