The TIMSS 1995 tests have not only an achievement aspect, but also an important diagnostic aspect. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the diagnostic perspective can be brought into focus when analysing the results of individual TIMSS items. Some TIMSS items (both multiple choice and free response items) from the Physics Specialists Test are studied in order to show their potential for ...

The countries participating in the mathematics portion of the TIMSS 1999 Video Study included Australia, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong SAR,1 Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. The TIMSS 1995 and 1999 average mathematics scores for these countries are displayed in table 1. On the TIMSS 1995 mathematics assessment, eighth-graders as a group in Japan and Hong Kong SAR were...

This study investigates gender differences in science achievement, self-concept of science ability, and subjective science values, based on TIMSS 1999 and 2003 database. The sample in the analyses presented including 5772 (TIMSS 1999) and 5739 (TIMSS 2003) Taiwanese eighth graders. All statistics showed that gender differences became smaller over time. However, the gender differences in the upp...

Introduction During the last two decades, there has been an increased focus on educational quality and learning outcomes in the world. International educational surveys like TIMSS, PIRLS and PISA have provided a basis for assessing educational quality on different levels and corresponding influential factors. Using information provided by such large scale assessment, participating countries can...

Many studies show that one of the most important factors related to delivering equity in education is the design of education system, its differentiation, and the age at the time of the first selection. In a system in which early self-selection is constrained by the choice structure there is less educational inequality than in a system where consequential decisions about the educational career ...

Malaysia is ranked 16 and 10 in mathematics based on the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 1999 and 2003, respectively while its neighbor, Singapore, used to be part of Malaysia until 1965, is ranked first in both years. Hence, it is the aim of this study to investigate what makes Singaporean students better in mathematics performance compared to Malaysian students. However, th...

In the western literature, mathematics achievement and its related student self-concept are important education outcomes reciprocally linked and mutually reinforcing. The reciprocal relation model is examined in this study to assess its generalization in a cross-cultural setting. Hong Kong is the site of choice because of its exposure to influences between British and Chinese cultures. A contex...

Teacher-Student Interaction in Primary Schools Succeeding and Failing in PIRLS 2006 and TIMSS 2007 S. Aghdasi A.R. Kiamanesh, Ph.D. M. MahdaviHezaaveh M. Safarkhaani To evaluate the student-teacher interactions in the classroom along the psychological and moral dimensions, and deduce any relationship between such interactions and the students' performance on PIRLS, a sa...

Mathematics education has been the subject of considerable international comparative research, mostly focussed on pupil achievement but also examining teaching methods, curricula, and so on. In all this, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the role of teachers has emerged as a key influence on pupil learning. Given that the development of pupils’ capability in geometrical reasoning continues to be an i...

Zusammenfassung Gemäß der Wahrnehmung insbesondere von Hochschullehrenden verringern sich die Fähigkeiten Abiturientinnen und Abiturienten im Fach Mathematik seit Jahrzehnten beständig. Allerdings liegen bisher kaum empirische Untersuchungen zur Trendentwicklung Mathematikleistungen in gymnasialen Oberstufe vor. Um Frage nachzugehen, ob vermutete negative empirisch nachweisen lässt, wurden Hess...