Sentence examples for competence in reading from inspiring English sources

Afterward, participants took tests assessing their competence in reading other people.

The process of joint observation stimulates parental attention and preoccupation with the baby, parental competence in reading the infant's cues and responding sensitively and responsively to the infant's behaviour.

In fact, literacy involves competence in reading, writing, and interpreting texts of various sorts.

We're not even in the top ten countries in terms of our children's competence in reading, math, or science.

In 2012 their country came 56th among 65 in the OECD's PISA tests of competence in reading, maths and science.

In the 18th and 19th centuries in western Europe and in America, even before the establishment of compulsory schooling, more than half of the population had some competence in reading and writing.

Moreover, these studies have examined the ingredients of strategic competence utilized in reading comprehension.

With this in mind we control for some factors that the literature has shown to be influential: educational achievement and competences, which are mirrored in reading literacy skills (PISA score) at lower secondary education, and the level of the lower secondary education track pursued (basic, extended or no formal requirements).

Both profiles were comparable in reading frequency and self-competence beliefs in reading.

The present study aims to examine whether there are individual differences in pre-service teachers' reading attitudes (n = 253) at the time of enrollment in teacher education in Belgium, and whether these differences explain differences in reading behavior and perceived reading competence.

If all evaluated public schools were efficient in PISA 2012, the percentage of students below proficiency level 2 (the minimum 'competence threshold' defined by OECD) in mathematics (reading) could be reduced from 67.2 to 48.5 % in mathematics and from 58.8 to 42.9 % in reading.