"Maths & Science on the line: Australian junior secondary students' per" by Jan Lokan, Phoebe Ford et al.
 

Publication Date

1996

Subjects

Foreign countries, Gender differences, International programs, Lower secondary years, Mathematics achievement, Mathematics teaching, Mathematics tests, Science achievement, Science teaching, Science tests, Secondary school mathematics, Secondary school science, Secondary school students, Secondary school teachers, Student attitudes, Teacher attitudes, Achievement tests, Comparative analysis, Comparative testing, Year 7, Year 8

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TIMSS Australia Monograph, No. 1

Abstract

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) was a comparative study of mathematics and science study involving more than half a million student participants from three stages of their schooling in 45 countries. TIMSS was preceded by two earlier mathematics studies and two earlier science studies, carried out separately from other and each much smaller than TIMSS in terms of the numbers of countries and students involved. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), which currently has its secretariat in Amsterdam, sponsored all of these studies. TIMSS investigated mathematics and science achievement at three stages of schooling, and has defined the following three target populations: Population 1: the two adjacent grade levels containing the largest proportion of nine-year-old students at the time of testing; Population 2: the two adjacent grade levels containing the largest proportion of thirteen-year-old students at the time of testing; Population 3: the final year of secondary schooling (some specialist sub-groups were also defined at this level). This monograph is the first in a series of three which will report on TIMSS in Australia, one for each of these populations, and contains a description of the procedures used and results obtained from the study of Population 2.

Place of Publication

Melbourne, Australia

Publisher

Australian Council for Educational Research

ISBN

0-86431-233-4

Geographic Subject

Australia

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