Pirls-based cognitive assessment instrument: How effective is it for measuring Indonesian language reading literacy in fifth grade?

Abstract

The Indonesian reading literacy test is a technique for evaluating students’ cognitive reading abilities. However, as of yet, the test questions administered to students are inadequate to assess certain parts of their Indonesian reading literacy. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop an adequate and standardized cognitive assessment instrument based on the PIRLS model to measure students' Indonesian reading literacy. The participants in the study were fifth graders from an elementary school, SD Negeri 11, located in Metro City, Lampung Province, Indonesia, with a total of 293 students. This study adopted a research and development design. The results indicated that the cognitive assessment instrument based on the PIRLS paradigm that was developed to measure Indonesian reading literacy in fifth graders delivered adequate and standardized items