Student Factors and Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from TIMSS 2007

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...

Educational-teaching Practices and Achievement Timss – Mathematics

This paper examines the IEA’s Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data for Greece and more specifically POP2 (8th grade). The paper focuses on the teacher’s educational-teaching practices in the classrooms and analyses these with factor analysis. We also investigate the relationship between teaching practices and student achievement with regression analysis. Educational / ...

TIMSS 2011 Student and Teacher Predictors for Mathematics Achievement Explored and Identified via Elastic Net

A substantial body of research has been conducted on variables relating to students' mathematics achievement with TIMSS. However, most studies have employed conventional statistical methods, and have focused on selected few indicators instead of utilizing hundreds of variables TIMSS provides. This study aimed to find a prediction model for students' mathematics achievement using as many TIMSS s...

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...