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Meinck, Sabine; Brese, Falk – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
This brief examines Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) science achievement of the 20% highest and the 20% lowest performing fourth and eighth graders in 11 countries. To do so, the authors compare achievement distributions across countries, using measures of relative equality within countries. Such an examination…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Science Achievement, Educational Policy, Grade 4
Kumarassamy, Jayanthy; Koh, Caroline – Research in Science Education, 2019
Much has been written and debated on the importance of including moral, character or values education in school curricula. In line with this, teachers' views with regard to values education have often been sought. However, a search into the literature on values in science education has revealed little on this domain. In an attempt to close this…
Descriptors: Values Education, Citizenship Education, Science Education, Teacher Attitudes
Lin, Jing-Wen; Yu, Ruan-Ching – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Modelling ability is one of the essential elements of the latest educational reforms, and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is a curriculum-based assessment which allows educational systems worldwide to inspect the curricular influences. The aims of this study were to examine the role of modelling ability in the…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Educational Change, Cross Cultural Studies, Test Items
Michaelides, Michalis P.; Brown, Gavin T. L.; Eklöf, Hanna; Papanastasiou, Elena C. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2019
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's (IEA) mission is to enhance knowledge about education systems worldwide, and to provide high-quality data that will support education reform and lead to better teaching and learning in schools. In pursuit of this aim, it conducts, and reports on, major studies of student…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Lay, Yoon Fah; Ng, Khar Thoe – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study that has been implemented by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) since 1995. This proposed study is aimed to identify the correlations of science classroom teachings with eighth graders' science…
Descriptors: Correlation, Science Instruction, Science Achievement, High Achievement
Lay, Yoon Fah; Ng, Khar Thoe – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
Since 1995, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) implemented the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) as an international comparative study. This article aims at identifying the correlations of science classroom instructions with TIMSS science achievement of eighth graders among…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Hwang, Sunghwan; Son, Taekwon – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2021
The relationship between students' attitudes toward mathematics and mathematics achievement has garnered tremendous attention from researchers. However, there is a degree of inconsistency in the findings regarding this relationship. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the profiles of students' attitudes toward mathematics and examine their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Mathematics Achievement
Benavot, Aaron; Romero-Celis, Treisy – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2019
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data reveal that setting high standards for the overall mathematics curriculum and ensuring teachers adhere to these standards may not necessarily lead to better learning outcomes for students. There are significant gaps between the intended and implemented grade 8 mathematics curricula…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests
Saatçioglu, Fatima Münevver; Atar, Hakan Yavuz – Participatory Educational Research, 2020
This study examined the existence of latent classes in TIMSS 2015 data from three countries, Singapure, Turkey and South Africa, were analyzed using Mixture Item Response Theory (MixIRT) models (Rasch, 1PL, 2PL and 3PL) on 18 multiple-choice items in the science subtest. Based on the findings, it was concluded that the data obtained from TIMSS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Response Theory, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Kim, Hyunjung – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2022
This study analyzed the responses of Korean students to interest, confidence, value, and instructional clarity in science and mathematics. To achieve this, the raw data of the recent student survey of TIMSS were analyzed. A one-way ANOVA was performed, and a post hoc test was performed. Additionally, a cohort analysis was performed to determine…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
Dibek, Munevver Ilgun – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
In the literature, response style is one of the factors causing an achievement-attitude paradox and threatens the validity of the results obtained from studies. In this regard, the aim of this study is two-fold. Firstly, it attempts to determine which item response tree (IRTree) models based on the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) approach…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Loh, Chin Ee; Sun, Baoqi; Majid, Shaheen – English in Education, 2020
Research on the gendered reading habits and preferences of boys and girls presents them as very different. This study focuses on the gendered reading habits and preferences of Singapore adolescent students (aged 12 to 17) to examine if such polarity exists in their reading habits. Drawing on survey data from 4830 adolescents in five secondary…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reading Habits, Adolescents, Preferences
Caleon, Imelda S.; Wui, Ma. Glenda L. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
This two-wave study examined the cross-lagged relations between teacher-student relatedness (student-teacher communication, teacher trust, and teacher alienation) and reading achievement of academically at-risk secondary students (N = 787) in Singapore. Compared with the cohort, these students had lower aggregate scores in a national examination…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Reading Achievement, At Risk Students, Secondary School Students
Luo, Wenshu; Liem, Gregory Arief D.; Lee, Kerry – Educational Psychology, 2019
This study investigated the interaction between self-efficacy and implicit beliefs of ability in their association with maladaptive learning in mathematics. The analysis was based on a large sample of 2538 Singapore Secondary 2 students (M[subscript age] = 13.75), who took measures of entity beliefs of ability, self-efficacy, and three maladaptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Self Esteem, Self Efficacy
Lay, Yoon Fah; Rajoo, Murugan – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study that has been implemented by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) since 1995. This proposed study is aimed to identify the affective factors contributing to eighth graders' science achievement in TIMSS…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes