Petra Lietz Libros

If asked how much the English, French, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian and Dutch languages had in common, most people might answer „very little“ because language is often regarded as one of the more idiosyncratic aspects of a culture. What then, if someone proposed to undertake a comparative study of reading in those languages? Would the results be meaningful? What could they contribute to the existing body of knowledge? This book seeks to address these questions. Data from eight countries that participated in two large scale studies of reading undertaken by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement in 1970/71 and 1990/91 are analyzed using Linear Structural Relations Analysis, Item Response Modeling and three-level Hierarchical Linear Modeling.

In the world of globalization, international markets and world-wide competition it is important for students to be well informed about the underlying economic concepts. Knowledge about economics, termed ‘economic literacy’, has become as important as being literate in reading, writing and arithmetic. For each country and educational system the importance of economic literacy is tied to educating its youth to be capable of understanding, thinking and acting according to basic economic principles. Based on the Australian setting this book sheds light on the growing importance of economic literacy as reflected in the States’ curricula and as measured in a recent survey conducted across Queensland.