Enhancing the Quality of Teaching to the Students through Reading

Abstract

Problems of quality of learning students, allover in the field of education have become the issue of the day. Referring to the research and evaluation on national and international levels, it is noticed that the quality of learning among students has been declining. Albanian schools despite the changes and reforms undertaken in recent years have faced a lower quality of students at various educational levels. Issues on functional illiteracy highlighted in a study performed by the World Bank (WB "Overview of the partnership program" June 2013), but also through the PISA assessments and evaluations at the national level have evidenced issues related to the quality of student learning process. One of the core issues related to student inability to succeed is the quality of their reading, this highly important component for success. Based on our school experiences, but as well on concrete research on this issue, we have undertaken this work through which we intend to emphasize some issues dealing with the issue of reading, in order to find some way out to improve reading in our schools. For this purpose our study work extends its scope to some specific issues related to student reading in compulsory education, considering at the same time previous research on this area of study, starting from the evaluation of programs, curricula, reading skills of students and to teachers' professional skills for teaching.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n1p295