Hello,
Although I only referred to TIMSS in my earlier posts, 2011 offered a
unique opportunity to examine student performance in both TIMSS [mathematics (gr. 4
and 8), science (gr. 4 and 8)] and PIRLS [reading (gr.4)].
The IEA press release at 10am CET includes four videos, which you can access at www.timss.org;
there are interviews with representatives from the Netherlands (Jos de
Groen, Dutch MOE; where 100% of gr. 4 students reached the lowest
benchmark), Singapore (Ho Peng, director-general of education; where
students improved their performance from 2007), Russian Federation
(Galina Kovaleva, Russian Academy of Education) and Hong Kong (Frederick
Leung*, University of Hong Kong) in video 2.
*Frederick Leung was a keynote speaker at MERGA (Mathematics
Education Research Group of Australasia) 2012, and the abstract for his
presentation, What can and should we learn from international studies of
mathematics achievement?, is available at: http://math.nie.edu.sg/merga2012/programme/abstract/abstractthree.aspx
The slides for the NCES press release, which took place at 10 am EST are available at https://nces.ed.gov/timss/results11.asp
along with the Highlights report of U.S. performance. If you are
interested in receiving the audio component, you should send a request
to stephen.provasnik@ed.gov
The full reports for the TIMSS and PIRLS study are available at timss.org, along with the encyclopedia of country backgrounds (two volumes), public release questions...
Enjoy.
Patsy
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