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...

Penelitian memiliki tujuan untuk melihat analisis kemampuan kognitif yang dimiliki mahasiswa melalui soal pengembangan model TIMSS matematika sudah valid serta reliabel. Metode dipakai pada peneliti adalah metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Deskriptif yaitu mengetahui penilaian mengenai dimensi, konstruk, bahasa soal, kemudian kuantitatif dikarenakan proses pengumpu...

This study examined the factors that determined science achievement of fourth-grade students on Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 USA. The data were retrieved from TIMSS international database imported to R program for manipulation. EdSurvey package was used conduct multilevel analysis, taking plausible values outcome variables, weighting into account. Level 1 p...

Background/Context: Although prior research shows that the nature and extent of private tutoring practices vary significantly from country to country, differences between Eastern and Western countries in terms of their cultural and institutional aspects of private tutoring choice have not been closely examined. We need to bridge the gap by studying the phenomenon of private tutoring more broadl...