English Reading Literacy Of Secondary School Students In West Java According To Pisa And Pirls Model

Abstract

This research aims at examining and describing the student’s reading literacy test results following the principles of two international studies of PISA and PIRLS. The sample of this study involves 15 schools at Sumedang Regency and 518 students consisted of 256 males and 262 females, coming from both accredited public and private schools. The results show that the students are able to do this international model of test quite well with the average score of 62.065. The students from public schools obviously get better achievement (64.95) than those from private ones (59.18). This is due to the fact that there are some influencing factors from the students themselves, the teachers, and school quality as well as their school environments examined in this research. The research is expected to provide alternative test model based on international standards to improve the quality of English education in secondary schools in Indonesia.