Lessons learned : what international assessments tell us about math achievement / Tom Loveless, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loveless, Tom, 1954-

TIMSS International Study Center.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement.

Mathematics--Study and teaching--Evaluation--Databases.

Mathematics.

Mathematical ability--Testing--Databases.

Mathematical ability.

Mathematics teachers--Evaluation--Databases.

Mathematics teachers.

Science--Study and teaching--Evaluation--Databases.

Science.

Science teachers--Evaluation--Databases.

Science teachers.

Science--Ability testing--Databases.

Science--Ability testing.

Examinations.

Evaluation.

Science--Study and teaching--Evaluation.

Mathematical ability--Testing.

Mathematics--Study and teaching--Evaluation.

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement--Examinations.

Genre:

Databases.

Physical Description:

ix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2007]

Summary:

For more than four decades, international assessments conducted by the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) have measured how well students are learning mathematics in different countries. Beyond the horse racethe rankings that compare nationswhat have we learned from the wealth of data collected in these assessments? How do US math curriculums compare to those used overseas? Is the effect of technology in the classroom uniform across nations? How do popular math reforms fare abroad? Those are some of the critical issues tackled in this important book.

Contents:

Introduction: secondary analysis of data from international assessments / Tom Loveless

TIMSS in perspective: lessons learned from IEA's four decades of international mathematics assessments / Ina V.S. Mullis and Michael O. Martin

Understanding causal influences on educational achievement through analysis of differences over time within countries / Jan-Eric Gustafsson

Lack of focus in the the mathematics curriculum: symptom or cause? / William H. Schmidt and Richard T. Houang

U.S. algebra performance in an international context / Jeremy Kilpatrick, Vilma Mesa, and Finbarr Sloane

What can TIMSS surveys tell us about mathematics reforms in the United States during the 1990s? / Laura S. Hamilton and José Felipe Martínez

School size and student achievement in TIMSS 2003 / Gabriela Schütz

Examining educational technology and achievement through latent variable modeling / Elena C. Papanastasiou and Efi Paparistodemou

Comparisons between PISA and TIMSS

are we the man with two watches? / Dougal Hutchison and Ian Schagen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815753349

9780815753346

0815753330

9780815753339

OCLC:

150255977