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45. Recent theories of reading literacy emphasise the fact that "reading does not take place in a
vacuum" (Snow and the RAND Reading Group, 2002; see also McCrudden & Schraw, 2007;
Rouet & Britt, 2011). Indeed, most reading activities in people's daily lives are motivated by specific
purposes and goals (White, Chen & Forsyth, 2010). Reading as a cognitive skill involves a set of
specific reading processes that competent readers make use of when engaging with texts in order
to achieve their goals. Goal setting and goal achievement drive not only readers' decisions to
engage with texts, their selection of texts and passages of text, but also their decisions to
disengage from a particular text, to reengage with a different text, to compare and to integrate
information across multiple texts (Britt & Rouet, 2012; Goldman, 2004; Perfetti, Rouet, & Britt,
1999).
46. To achieve reading literacy as it is defined in this framework, an individual needs to be able to
execute a wide range of processes. Effective execution of these processes, in turn, requires that
the reader have the cognitive skills, strategies and motivation that support the processes.
47. The PISA 2018 reading framework acknowledges the goal-driven, critical and intertextual
nature of reading literacy (McCrudden & Schraw, 2007; Rouet, 2006; Vidal-
Abarca, Mañá, & Gil,
2010). Consequently, the former typology of reading aspects (OECD, 2000) is revised and
extended so as to explicitly represent the fuller range of processes that skilled readers selectively
draw from as a function of their particular task context and information environment.
48. More specifically, two broad categories of reading processes are defined for PISA 2018: text
processing and task management (Figure 2). This distinction is consistent with current views of
reading as a situated and purposeful activity (see e.g. Snow and the Rand Reading Group., 2002).
The focus of the cognitive assessment is on processes identified in the text processing box.
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