3rd NRC Meeting in Riga, Latvia, for PIRLS 2026
experts from over 50 countries met in Riga to further concretize the implementation of the PIRLS 2026 reading literacy study. The meeting was hosted by the International Association for the Evaluation [...] texts, which around 400,000 fourth graders worldwide will answer during the survey period planned for 2026. Further implementation details were also presented and discussed, for example the planned digital [...] of the study is to compare the reading skills of pupils worldwide at the end of fourth grade. PIRLS 2026 is funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and Ständigen Konferenz der Kultusminister …