First lessons for à la carte literacy teaching for school pupils

The pilot project offering a choice of literacy between French and German in mixed classes could potentially help to remedy educational inequalities in Luxembourg at the start of the school career, according to an interim report from the Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET) at the University of Luxembourg.

On the basis of data from Standardised Tests (EpStan) collected in autumn 2023 as part of school monitoring, pupils taught to read and write in French achieve better results in listening comprehension and precursor reading tests administered in their language of literacy than those in the reference sample, who have comparable characteristics but learn to read and write systematically in German, following the national curriculum. ...