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Peer reviewedWeller, Leonard; Levi, Sandra – Adolescence, 1981
Eighth-grade Israeli students' social class had no effect on self-concept or intelligence quotient but was associated significantly with teachers' judgments of the students' academic performance. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Intelligence Quotient
Direct linkBirenbaum, Menucha; Tatsuoka, Curtis; Xin, Tao – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2005
A diagnostic model for large-scale assessment was applied to TIMSS data to compare mathematics performance of eighth graders from three countries--the US, Singapore, and Israel. Compared were attribute mastery probabilities for content, skills and cognitive processes underlying students' performance on the 1999 TIMSS-R mathematics test. Also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Cultural Differences, Mathematics Tests
Peer reviewedZohar, Anat; Tamir, Pinchas – Journal of Biological Education, 1991
Describes a study to diagnose grade 8 (n=185) and grade 10 (n=170) Israeli students' difficulties in causal thinking while studying biology. The two main difficulties found are (1) inability to organize events according to their correct temporal sequence and (2) inability to identify an event that had been caused by another event. (MDH)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Biology, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests
Tatsuoka, Kikumi K.; Corter, James E.; Tatsuoka, Curtis – American Educational Research Journal, 2004
This study used a diagnostic testing approach to compare the mathematics achievement of eighth-grade students across a sample of 20 countries, analyzing data from the Third International Math and Science Study-Revised (TIMSS-R, 1999). Using the rule-space method, student mastery was measured on 23 specific content knowledge and processing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Grade 8, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills
