PISA - Program for International Student Assessment Reading Literacy Competencies Questions and Answers

Question 1

According to the PISA 2018 framework, which of the following cognitive processes is most concerned with assessing the quality and credibility of a text?

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Evaluating and reflecting

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Locating information

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Understanding

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Reading fluently

Question 2

A student is asked to read three different online articles about climate change and synthesize the information to form a coherent understanding of the issue, noting any contradictions between the sources. This task primarily assesses which PISA reading competency?

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Detecting and handling conflict

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Reading fluently

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Accessing and retrieving information

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Acquiring a representation of the literal meaning

Question 3

The PISA definition of Reading Literacy is 'understanding, using, evaluating, reflecting on and engaging with texts in order to...' Which of the following best completes the definition?

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achieve one's goals, to develop one's knowledge and potential and to participate in society.

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pass standardized school examinations.

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master basic decoding and word recognition skills.

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analyze the grammatical structure of sentences.

Question 4

A student is given a bus schedule (a non-continuous text) and asked to find the last bus that departs for the city center on a Saturday. This task primarily falls under which reading process?

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Locating information

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Reflecting on content and form

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Constructing an integrated representation of text

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Assessing quality and credibility

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a primary dimension along which the PISA reading literacy domain is organized?

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Author's background and biography

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Reading processes (e.g., understanding, evaluating)

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Text (e.g., source, format)

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Situations (e.g., personal, public, educational)

Question 6

When a student is asked to explain the main message of a short story by integrating different pieces of information from the narrative, they are primarily demonstrating the competency of:

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Constructing an integrated representation of text

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Reading fluently

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Searching for and selecting relevant text

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Reflecting on the content and form of a text