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Egan, Laura; Tang, Judy H.; Ferraro, David; Erberber, Ebru; Tsokodayi, Yemurai; Stearns, Pat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study designed to measure trends in mathematics and science achievement at grades 4 and 8, as well as to collect information about educational contexts (such as students' schools, teachers, and homes) that may be related to student achievement. TIMSS has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
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Long, Caroline; Wendt, Heike – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2017
South Africa participated in TIMSS from 1995 to 2015. Over these two decades, some positive changes have been reported on the aggregated mathematics performance patterns of South African learners. This paper focuses on the achievement patterns of South Africa's high-performing Grade 9 learners (n = 3378) in comparison with similar subsamples of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Multiplication, Comparative Education
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Wang, Jianjun – International Education Studies, 2012
Cross-cultural changes were accompanied by the sovereignty transition of Hong Kong during the TIMSS data collection, which triggered migration of intellectual families between Hong Kong and other places. To enhance comparability of the urban setting, this investigation focuses on Singapore and Hong Kong for having similar Chinese majority and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Science Achievement, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2012
Cross-cultural changes were accompanied by the sovereignty transition of Hong Kong during the TIMSS data collection, which triggered migration of intellectual families between Hong Kong and other places. To enhance comparability of the urban setting, this investigation focuses on Singapore and Hong Kong for having similar Chinese majority and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Science Achievement, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis