An International Reading Literacy Study: Factor Structure of the Chinese Version of the Student Questionnaire (PIRLS-SQCV 2011)

Table 1

Content of the PIRLS 2011 student questionnaire (PIRLS-SQCV 2011).

	Question items in PIRLS-SQCV 2011
Background information	Gender (G1)
	Age (G2)
	Frequency of speaking Cantonese at home (G3)
	Number of books at home (G4)
	The presence of various socio-economic indicators in the home (G5A–O; G6A–C)
Contextual factors	Parents’ support for students’ studies (G7A–D)
	School climate for learning (G8A–C)
	Students bullied at school (G9A–F)
	Out-of-school reading behaviour (R1; R2A–C; R3A–F; R4)
	Students engaged in reading lessons (R5A–G)
	Independent reading behaviour at school (R6A-B)
	Students liked reading (R7A–F)
	Students confident in reading (R8A–G)
	Students motivated to read (R9A–F)

Contextual factors are referring to the PIRLS 2011 assessment framework. Coding of the items R5D, R7A, R7D, R8C, R8F, and R8G was reversed prior to EFA analysis for consistency.