Considered an essential habit for the development of all knowledge, reading is not significantly present in the routine of many Brazilian students. This is what a survey released this Wednesday (29) by the Center for Research in Education, Interdisciplinarity and Evidence in Educational Debate (Iede), in partnership with the reading platform Árvore, shows.
According to the data, among 66.3% of Brazilian students aged 15 and 16, the longest book ever read was no more than 10 pages.
The study, based on an analysis of microdata from the 2018 Pisa international exam, establishes an association between low reading rates and a drop in young people’s performance in subjects such as mathematics and science.
According to the research, only 9.5% of Brazilian students aged 15 and 16 read material longer than 100 pages in 2018 – a lower rate than in other Latin American countries, such as Chile (64%), Argentina (25.4 %) and Colombia (25.8%). In Finland, which has the best rates in the study, the level reaches 72.8%.
Analyzes carried out exclusively for the study also show that students who reach higher levels of learning generally have better reading habits.
Among those who said they read more than 100 pages, 29% achieved at least level 4 in Reading on Pisa. Among those who said that the longest text read was one page or less, only 5% reached the same level.
Despite the negative indications, young Brazilians view reading positively. According to a Pisa questionnaire, both in public and private schools, more than 40% of students say they like to talk about books, an average higher than that recorded by the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
According to the researchers, the analysis shows the importance of reading for achieving good educational results and reveals that a good reading habit among young people seems to be associated with better socioeconomic results in the countries where they live, with an increase in GDP per capita and a fall in the Unemployment Rate among the population aged 15 to 24.
Source: CNN Brasil
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