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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
