Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】Reading literacy is the most essential skills in human development, therefore, to investigate what fac?
tors influence students’reading literacy will enhance students’reading ability and comprehensive development and provide an effec?
tive way to excellent reading education【. Method/process】This present study based on psychological theory of educational productivity,applying HLM to further explore the factors related to students’reading literacy.A total of 11,993 participants from 361 schools in China were extracted from PISA 2018 database.【Result/conclusion】The results indicated that students’aptitude, teachers’instruc-tion as well as social-psychological environment all have a significant impact on students’reading literacy, and different factors have different effects on students’reading literacy.【Innovation/limitation】This current study provided a multidimensional perspective by probing into the dynamic development factors of students’reading literacy from student- and school-level, restoring the whole picture of the system of reading education, which is conducive to the quality and governance of reading education.