{"id":921,"date":"2020-06-15T18:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=921"},"modified":"2020-06-15T18:17:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:17:05","slug":"using-reading-data-to-improve-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2020\/06\/15\/using-reading-data-to-improve-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Reading Data to Improve Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From WorldReader:<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\"><span class=\"x_font-verdana\"><strong>At Worldreader, we like to say \u201cdata or it didn\u2019t happen\u201d<\/strong>. Realistically, if we\u2019re to achieve\u00a0<em>quality<\/em>\u00a0education for all, we need data to make it happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\"><span class=\"x_font-verdana\">There\u2019s still a lot of uncertainty around how education is going to look in the coming months due to the pandemic. But one thing is for certain: the use of data will help inform vital policy decisions on how to best support learners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\"><span class=\"x_font-verdana\"><strong>So, how exactly can we use data to improve international education?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\"><span class=\"x_font-verdana\">At Worldreader we monitor reading behaviors from readers in 47 countries to better understand their behaviour \u2013\u00a0and improve learning outcomes. We thought it would be interesting to share some of the ways we do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\"><span class=\"x_font-verdana\">Here\u2019s a piece I wrote about it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldreader.cmail20.com\/t\/t-l-pjtklil-ayddrkrdy-r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Using Digital Reading Data to Improve International Education<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\"><span class=\"x_font-verdana\">Thanks for reading, and thanks for helping readers build a better world,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\"><span class=\"x_font-verdana\"><strong>Carol da Silva<\/strong>,\u00a0Ed.D,<br \/>\nSenior Director, Regional Strategy,<br \/>\nWorldreader<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WorldReader: At Worldreader, we like to say \u201cdata or it didn\u2019t happen\u201d. Realistically, if we\u2019re to achieve\u00a0quality\u00a0education for all, we need data to make it happen.\u00a0 There\u2019s still a lot of uncertainty around how education is going to look in the coming months due to the pandemic. But one thing is for certain: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766,6907,9546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-reading-promotion-2","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}