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U.S. States in a Global Context: Results from the 2011 NAEP-TIMSS Linking Study. NCES 2013-460
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) initiated this special study in an effort to link the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scale to the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) scale so that states could compare the performance of their students with that of students in other countries. The…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Grade 8, Mathematics Tests, Science Tests
PIRLS 2011 International Results in Reading
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Mullis, Ina V.S.; Martin, Michael O.; Foy, Pierre; Drucker, Kathleen T. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
PIRLS is an international assessment of reading comprehension at the fourth grade that has been conducted every five years since 2001. In 2011, nationally representative samples of students in 49 countries participated in PIRLS and prePIRLS. Forty-five countries assessed fourth grade students, and some countries participated in one or more of the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, International Studies
The National Senior Certificate: Implications for Access to Higher Education
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Nel, C.; Kistner, L. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
In the light of the uncertainty surrounding the new National Senior Certificate that was written in South African schools for the first time in 2008, this article aims to examine the new Grade 12 National Senior Certificate results quantitatively in the context of the Grade 11 application score for entry into higher education and the Grade 12…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Grade 12, Grade 11, Academic Ability