Examining Factor Structure of the Chinese Version of the PIRLS 2011 Home Questionnaire

Table 1

Content of the PIRLS 2011 home questionnaire (PIRLS-HQCV 2011).

	Question items in PIRLS-HQCV 2011
Background information
	Identity of respondent (1)
Student’s characteristics	Students’ frequency of preschool activities (2); Students’ language spoken before school (3); Students’ attendance to Kindergarten (4); Students’ age entering primary school (5)
Books in the home	Number of books at home (14); Number of children’s books at home (15A, 15B)
Parents’ characteristics	Language spoken with their child (16A–G); Parents’ education (17A–L); Parent’s educational expectations for their children (18); Parents’ employment status (19A–E); Parents’ occupation (20A–L)
Contextual factors
	Performance on early literacy tasks (6A–E)
	Performance on early numeracy tasks (7A–D)
	Students’ time spent on homework (8)
	Home-school involvement (9A–H)
	Parents’ opinions of child’s school (10A–H)
	Parents’ frequency of reading (11)
	Frequency of read for enjoyment (12); Parents like reading (13A–G)

Contextual factors are referred to the PIRLS 2011 assessment framework.