Use and Impact of PIRLS

Saudi Arabia’s participation in PIRLS will allow for the assessment of the singular performance of students, teachers, and principals. The results additionally will provide information related to learning policies and facilitate the development of the educational system. Through participation in PIRLS, Saudi Arabia hopes to build a distinctive educational system with reading and writing as a central component by concentrating on four major processes of comprehension:

Identifying specific ideas and ways of restating them
Drawing conclusions and explaining information and ideas in texts
Expounding on and merging information
Studying and assessing content, language, and elements of a given text