Shrinking achievement gaps is very important in educational and social progress. The TIMSS provides information on the achievement gaps among different countries in mathematics and science. For Taiwan, Based on the result of TIMSS 2003, there was an excellent average performance in Taiwan. However, the proportion of low achievers was high and the overall students’ learning interest and self-eff...

Analyses of TIMSS data have, naturally enough, largely concentrated on comparisons of overall attainment between and within countries. There is however a huge range of data collected, around an educational framework, and there is substantial scope for secondary analyses on other themes. This presentation describes the result of one such investigation, on the degree of within-school clustering o...

Bu çalışmanın amacı fen bilimleri öğretmenlerinin TIMSS sınavı farkındalığını ve 2019 performansını nasıl değerlendirdiklerini belirlemektir. Çalışma grubu 2021-2022 eğitim öğretim yılında Gaziantep ili Nizip ilçesinde görev yapan 23 öğretmeninden oluşmuştur. Yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ile veriler toplanmıştır. temel nitel bir araştırma olup, içerik analizi analiz edilmiştir. Çalışmada ...

Using techniques of natural language processing to assist the preparation of educational resources for language learning has become an important field. We report two software systems that are designed for assisting the tasks of test item translation and test item authoring. We built a software environment to help experts translate the test items for the Trends in International Mathematics and S...

The aim of the presented study was to conduct an analysis of TIMSS 2003 database and to determine how negative school factors, such as aggression, are associated to the mathematical and science achievement of students. The analyses were conducted separately for national and international data. National analyses for Slovenia show significant associations between math and science achievement and ...

This study investigates the relationship between student achievement in science and students positive attitude towards science according to the results collected in TIMSS 2007. Four countries with some similarities and differences in the school system and science education were selected. The students’ results have a strong correlation to the index PATS in all four countries, but there are some ...

Den internationella studien Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) mäter bland annat elevers kunskap i naturvetenskap. En studie har undersökt sambandet mellan resultat och hur frågorna är uppbyggda språkligt. visar att elever behöver vara goda läsare för uppnå bra naturvetenskap på TIMSS.

South Africa participated in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)in 1995 and its repeat in 1999. In 1995, none of the data on school or teacher level could be analyzed to provide the context for the students' poor achievements in mathematics and science. With the 1999 data now available at both school and teacher levels in addition to the student level data, this backdr...

Per pupil expenditures on education in the United States have grown immensely in recent decades, yet student achievement has been stagnant. An abundance of research has sought to solve this enigma, much of it centered on the incentive structure facing administrators. Some recent papers use TIMSS data to analyze the relationship between institutional arrangements—that typically do not vary withi...