TIMSS International Curriculum Analysis and Measuring Educational Opportunities
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Following the long tradition of attending to the importance of educational opportunity in the understanding of educational progress, 1995 TIMSS International Curriculum Analysis (ICA) was designed to capture country’s curriculum standards as intended curricula and their textbooks as potential implemented curricula. The vision of education opportunity was that of the IEA Tri-Partite Model of Curriculum. Since then, numerous articles and books have been published expanding on the knowledge gained from this study. This paper briefly reviews the ICA dataset and the subsequent advances made toward relating educational opportunity to educational gains.
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