RWCT’s Impact on Romanian Teachers’ Classroom Instruction and Reflection Practices

 By 2020, the European Commission aims to reduce the percentage of 15-year-olds classed as ”low-achieving” as measured by OECD’s PISA tests to less than 15% (Europe 2020). Said percentage in Romania currently stands at around 40. At the EU-level, the highest percentage of very poor readers (those scoring below the low benchmark) was recorded in Romania, where 16% of pupils were not able to recognise, locate, and reproduce explicitly stated details from the texts (PISA, 2009). RWCT Romania holds the view that the RWCT program has the potential to help the Romanian education system to achieve the highly ambitious goal of more than halving its percentage of ”low-achieving” 15-year-olds. In our present study, we wanted to see what impact the RWCT program has had on those secondary school teachers’ instruction practices and reflection habits who completed the program 5-7 years prior to this research.

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