Professional Development and Student Achievement: International Evidence from the TIMSS Data

Context factors and student achievement in the IEA studies: evidence from TIMSS

Background A review of the literature on how school-level factors were, and still are, used to predict and interpret student performance in some of the IEA studies—i.e., PIRLS, TIMSS, and ICCS—showed that it is quite difficult to find strong associations between school-level Abstract Background: The present study investigates what factors related to the school context influence student achievem...

The Effect of Central Exit Examinations on Student Achievement: Quasi-experimental Evidence from TIMSS Germany

School Size and Student Achievement in TIMSS 2003

A large strand of literature within different social sciences of education deals with the effects of school size on student achievement. Much of the existing research seems to indicate that up to a point, small school size is associated with higher student achievement, with optimal school sizes of some 600-900 students. However, evidence is mostly confined to the United States. Using TIMSS data...

Reviewing the evidence on how teacher professional development affects student achievement

Topic area focus. As part of the Southwestern Regional Educational Laboratory’s (REL Southwest) fast-turnaround projects, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will conduct a systematic review of research-based evidence on the effects of professional development on growth in student learning. The main focus of the review will be how students’ achievement in three core academic subjects (En...

Examining the relationship between student academic achievement and self-concept in the I/E, BFLPE, and combined models - Evidence from East Asian countries’ data in TIMSS 2007

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between student achievement and self-concept of science/mathematics by using a combined model consisting of the internal/external frame of reference (I/E) and the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) models in three high-performing East Asian countries. The samples were from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 20...