Could learning strategies reduce the performance gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students?
Knowing the best way to summarise information you read is key to being a proficient reader. In fact, this month’s PISA in Focus suggests that if disadvantaged students – who consistently score lower on PISA assessments than advantaged students -- used the most effective learning strategies to the same extent as students from more advantaged backgrounds do, the performance gap between the two groups would shrink considerably.
via bitly http://bit.ly/15fUq2w http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisainfocus/pisa in focus n30 (eng)--Final.pdf
Knowing the best way to summarise information you read is key to being a proficient reader. In fact, this month’s PISA in Focus suggests that if disadvantaged students – who consistently score lower on PISA assessments than advantaged students -- used the most effective learning strategies to the same extent as students from more advantaged backgrounds do, the performance gap between the two groups would shrink considerably.
via bitly http://bit.ly/15fUq2w http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisainfocus/pisa in focus n30 (eng)--Final.pdf
