Madrid, Spain

Use and Impact of PIRLS

Madrid has used its participation in PIRLS to promote reading across the curriculum and to collect the resources and documents used in PIRLS 2001, 2006, and 2011. The community has made all these resources available for download and use in the classroom. All the released items are accompanied by the coding guides in order to make these resources more useful.³³

Madrid amplified its PIRLS sample in 2016 and will use this opportunity to conduct a deeper analysis of its bilingual program since the students in participating schools took the assessment in English. Community officials gave a presentation to communicate these changes.³⁴

Actions taken at the national and regional levels to disseminate and use the PIRLS results include:

• Publishing an official educational newsletter publication on the webpage of the National Institute for Educational Evaluation³⁵
• Holding seminars to disseminate results within the educational community and with teachers and principals, including:
  • The PIRLS-TIMSS Congress in 2013³⁶
  • A 2013 seminar for released items of TIMSS, PIRLS, and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)³⁷
  • Second Forum: International External Evaluations: PIRLS and TIMSS in 2013³⁸
  • Current Prospects for National and International Educational Evaluations in 2016³⁹