Month: December 2017

The second report in the ERC’s new Research Series was released on December 18th 2017. The Research Series is designed to provide regular and accessible reports on aspects of the research carried out by the Centre.

The new report is titled Inside the primary classroom: What happens in Fourth Class? and was written by Aidan Clerkin, Rachel Perkins, and Emma Chubb.  It uses data from TIMSS 2015 to describe the teaching of mathematics and science at Fourth Class.

Click here to download Inside the primary classroom: What happens in Fourth Class?

Click here for the press release.

 

The first report in the Research Series, launched earlier this month, was Shaping Schools: What TIMSS tells us about education systems, written by Eemer Eivers and Emma Chubb.

Click here for the report.
Click here for the press release.

Ireland’s national report on PIRLS and ePIRLS 2016 has been released, to coincide with the release of the international reports on the two studies.  PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) takes place every five years and examines the reading achievement of pupils in Fourth Class.  The 2016 cycle also saw the introduction of an assessment of reading in an online environment (ePIRLS).

The results show that Irish pupils performed extremely well on both the paper-based and computer-based reading assessments.

Click here to access the national report, by Eemer Eivers, Lorraine Gilleece and Emer Delaney.

Click here to see the summary flyer.

Click here to download the press release