Background A review of the literature on how school-level factors were, and still are, used to predict and interpret student performance in some of the IEA studies—i.e., PIRLS, TIMSS, and ICCS—showed that it is quite difficult to find strong associations between school-level Abstract Background: The present study investigates what factors related to the school context influence student achievem...

In this study we investigate differences among students, classes and schools in attitudes towards mathematics focusing on the student and home characteristics, group composition, and learning environment characteristics. We used data from TIMSS-R and our dataset consists of 4168 eighth-grade Flemish students, 261 classes and 133 secondary schools. Multilevel analyses showed that most of the dif...

There is an increased focus on educational quality and learning outcomes in Sweden, especially since international comparative studies like TIMSS has put the limelight on declining study results in core subject like mathematics. School-effectiveness is therefore an urgent issue. The aim of this study is to identify factors that contribute to the explanation why some schools is effective but oth...

This study used a diagnostic testing approach to compare the mathematics achievement of eighth-grade students across a sample of 20 countries, analyzing data from the Third International Math and Science Study–Revised (TIMSS-R, 1999). Using the rule-space method, student mastery was measured on 23 specific content knowledge and processing subskills (“attributes”) underlying students’ item score...

This study examines the instructional activities that underlie achievement in science using data from the TIMSS-R database. The focus population for this study is 15-yearold students from Cyprus. The results revealed a number of variables that were found to be negatively correlated with achievement as well as variables that were positively correlated with achievement. It appears that the negati...

هدفت الدراسة الحالية للتعرف على دور القيادة المدرسية في تحسين نتائج الاختبارات الدولية (TIMSS) من وجهة نظر المعلمين والمعلمات بمدينة الطائف، وقد استخدمت المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، واستبانة (35) عبارة، مقسمة إلى خمسة أبعاد، تم تطبيقها عينة (643) معلمي ومعلمات الطائف حصلت متوسط كلي (2.51 5), أي بدرجة قليلة. وعلى مستوى الأبعاد اتضح النتائج أن أبرز لواقع TIMSS)) تمثلت بُعد التنظيم والتنسيق المدرسي، حيث...

In response to frequent news media reports about how poorly American students fare compared with their peers abroad, Daniel Koretz takes a close look at what these comparisons say, and do not say, about the achievement of U.S. high school students. He stresses that the comparisons do not provide what many observers of education would like: unambiguous information about the effectiveness of Amer...

The overall aim of this study was to examine the different self-reported students’ socioeconomic status (SES) measures in Trends Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) comparison national SES obtained from Swedish official registers. A further determine if same conclusions could be drawn student were used define when modelling TIMSS mathematics achievement. results showed that choice matters. ho...

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study that has been implemented by the Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) since 1995. This proposed aimed to identify correlations science classroom teachings with eighth graders' achievement TIMSS among Southeast Asian East countries. The freely downloadable secondary data wer...