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Albulene Grajcevci; Arif Shala – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
A wide range of reforms to improve the teaching capacities of pre-service and in-service teachers have been carried out in Kosovo. In assessing the success of these previous interventions, large-scale assessment data is invaluable. In 2019, 4754 students from 145 schools participated in the TIMSS assessment. Results reveal that student's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Coskun, Burçin; Karadag, Engin – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
In this study, the effects of some student (e.g., gender, bullying, etc.) and school variables (e.g., emphasis on academic achievement, clarity of teaching, etc.) on the TIMSS 2015 science and mathematics achievement of eighth grade students in Türkiye were examined by controlling for the socioeconomic status of the students at the student and…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Cooke, Audrey; Jenßen, Lars; Norén, Eva Norén – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
International comparisons of student achievement in mathematics and their attitudes towards, confidence with and anxiety to mathematics have a long history. Likewise, detailed international comparisons of teacher education programs have also been conducted. However, the relationship between the teacher education programs and teacher anxiety for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Differences
Sezer, Elif; Cakan, Mehtap – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2022
This correlative study examined the role of teacher qualities and working conditions in 4th- and 8th-grade Turkish students' mathematics achievement in TIMSS 2019. Teacher qualifications were defined based on the teacher questionnaire used in TIMSS 2019 and were discussed in three categories: personal characteristics, teacher qualifications, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Characteristics, Grade 4
Glassow, Leah Natasha; Jerrim, John – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Unequal access to qualified teachers for children of different socioeconomic status--also known as inequitable teacher sorting--has been increasingly put forth as one potential factor contributing to the socioeconomic achievement gap. Despite this, few studies have investigated cross-national differences in teacher sorting, and none have examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests, International Assessment
Bansilal, Sarah; Lephoto, Thabo; North, Delia; Zewotir, Temesgen – South African Journal of Education, 2022
Teacher well-being is an important issue that needs to be considered within a teaching environment. However, little research exists about the relationship between teacher well-being and learner performance. In this study we used data from the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) to look at the interplay between…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Grade 9, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Long, Caroline; Wendt, Heike – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
The chain of progression from teacher education to qualification to classroom instruction and student engagement, and then to learning and achievement, is not as straightforward as often presented. Societal, political and economic pressures create either a positive climate or a stressful one for both teachers and students. Nevertheless it is safe…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
National Foundation for Educational Research, 2018
Education is recognised across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as a moral imperative and a strategic priority to secure future prosperity and human flourishing. Policymakers have set ambitious targets to join the ranks of the best performing education systems in the world in order to deliver economic success and secure a place on the world…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Kocabas, Sezai; Ozfidan, Burhan; Burlbaw, Lynn M. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
STEM education was a systematic teaching and/or learning process in the STEM fields and a positive correlation existed between STEM education, and the economic prosperity and power of a nation in the globalized world. In recent years, rising concerns have emerged about American STEM education. Many stakeholders wondered that whether the nation has…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications, Correlation
Winnaar, L. D.; Frempong, G.; Blignaut, R. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2015
Introduction: Studies of school effect usually evolve around two major issues; understanding of the factors within schools that explain variation in students achievement levels, and how differences among schools account for the variation in their students' achievement levels. Given the limited studies of school effect research in South Africa,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics
Ari, Sinan; Ünal, Emre – College Student Journal, 2016
The need for and employment of qualified teachers have always been in the agenda since the foundation of our country. It is aimed with this study to reveal the convenience of the Content Knowledge Test for Teaching (CKTT), which was first held in 2014, in terms of the content of the classroom teaching undergraduate programs, general competencies…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Tests, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Competencies
Cho, Mee-Ok; Scherman, Vanessa; Gaigher, Estelle – Perspectives in Education, 2014
This paper reports on secondary analysis of TIMSS 2003 data with the aim of explaining the difference in science achievement of Korean and South African learners. The question asked by this research, i.e. which factors at various educational levels influence science achievement in Korea and South Africa respectively, is addressed from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, School Size, Science Achievement
Badri, Masood; Al Khaili, Mugheer – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
Key system challenges identified by the Abu Dhabi Education Council provided the impetus for an aggressive strategic plan as necessary guidance and support for the development of the P-12 education system to contribute to advancing its positioning in the global knowledge economy. For the Abu Dhabi Education Council, the analysis served as a tool…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Strategic Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Quality
Meeks, Linda; Kemp, Coral; Stephenson, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The establishment of international testing regimes such as the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has provided one way for individual countries to monitor the effectiveness of their educational…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Academic Standards, Academic Achievement
Luschei, Thomas F.; Chudgar, Amita – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
Despite costly global efforts to improve and reward teacher qualifications like education and experience, little international evidence exists on the relationship between these attributes and student achievement. It is also unclear whether these attributes are more important for disadvantaged children, or in lower-income countries. This article…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Income, Science Achievement
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