Education systems can be conceptualized as the scaffolding that supports construction and development of student competences. Among other things, size, location, learning resources schools affect how efficient system is at delivering required support. Data from international large-scale assessments have indicated rural may differ those urban schools; students in more economically developed envi...

A great number of studies have investigated science teaching and learning (STL) using data from the Trends in International Mathematics Science Study (TIMSS) Programme for Student Assessment (PISA). Nevertheless, there is little effort to synthesise these studies. Reviewing status research on STL, including trends, approaches, findings crucial identifying gaps that require greater attention. Co...

Abstract Large-scale international assessment studies such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) or Programme for Student Assessment (PISA) provide researchers policy makers the opportunity to conduct secondary analyses answer questions related educational outcomes compare impact of certain inputs on student across countries. These comparisons are made under assumptio...

98 words]: This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance. We propose alternative difference-in-differences estimators that exploit the quasi-experimental nature of the national TIMSS middle school sample. The estimates show that students in fed...

Gender differences in science amongst year 8 students in Australia in TIMSS 2003 were a surprise, given two decades of programs designed to increase girls’ participation levels in science. This study examines student and school-level characteristics simultaneously using hierarchical linear modelling to estimate the ability of each to explain gender differences in science achievement for student...

This study provides a comparison of the results latent class analysis (LCA) and mixture Rasch model (MRM) using data from Trends in International Mathematics Science Study – 2011 (TIMSS-2011) with focus on 8th-grade mathematics section. The research focuses LCA MRM to determine if obtained differ when assumed psychometric differs. Also, log-linear was conducted understand interactions between c...