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Direct linkShen, C.; Tam, H. P. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
Using 3 waves of the TIMSS data, this study investigates the relationship between 8th-graders' mathematics and science achievement and their self-perceptions on these 2 subjects. For within-country data, there is generally a positive relationship between students' achievement and the following 3 measures of their self-perception: how much they…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Academic Standards, Correlation, Mathematics Achievement
Rotberg, Iris C. – Educational Leadership, 2006
The current preoccupation in the United States with test-based accountability is founded on a set of faulty assumptions--about education practices elsewhere in the world, about international test score comparisons, and about the extent to which test scores are valid indicators of the quality of education or the state of the economy. For example,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Standardized Tests, Scores
