This paper analyzes the effect of assigning homework on student achievement using data from 16 OECD countries that participated in TIMSS 2007. The model exploits withinstudent variation in homework across subjects in a sample of primary school students who have the same teacher in two related subjects; mathematics and science. Unobserved teacher and student characteristics are thus conditioned ...

This study investigates the relationship between self-confidence and achievement among Malaysian students using multinomial logistic regression and the data are from TIMSS 2007. Although, in general, Malaysian students had low self-confidence in learning mathematics, their performance in mathematics at the international level is higher as compared to some countries with high level of self-confi...

In nearly all countries, technological changes in the field of digital media have raised great interest in procedures for testing students' performance by means of computer-based assessment. For extensive international tests (large-scale assessments) such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) or Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), pilot studies ...

Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycl...

In this paper, two nationwide assessments for elementary and secondary students’ educational achievement in Korea were reviewed for their assessment frameworks and the overall results; the Diagnostic Test for Basic Skills (DTBS) of Grade 3 elementary students and the National Assessment of Educational Achievement (NAEA) for Grade 6, 9 and 10 students. Also, the results for Korea in two large-sc...

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 Cur...

Abstract This study explored the influence of early literacy and numeracy skills on fourth-grade math achievement using Trends in International Mathematics Science Study (TIMSS). The utilized valuable information collected by TIMSS about context related questionnaires such as home resources for learning, development, readiness school, students’ school lives a cross cultural linguistic framework...