Ina V. S. Mullis

Boston College | BC · Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation

TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) and PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) are projects of the International Association for the Evaluation of International Achievement (IEA). TIMSS and PIRLS achievement data inform countries about progress in student’s learning in mathematics, science, and reading fr...

Because of the educational importance of mathematics and science, IEA's (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, widely known as TIMSS, is dedicated to providing countries with information to improve teaching and learning in these curriculum areas. Conducted eve...

International comparative studies of educational achievement had their origins in what is now known as the First International Mathematics Study (FIMS). FIMS was the first venture of the fledgling International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), the organization that pioneered international assessments of student achie...

Developing the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Advanced 2008 Assessment Frameworks was a collaborative venture involving mathematics and physics experts from around the world. The document contains two frameworks for implementing TIMSS Advanced 2008--one for advanced mathematics and one for physics. It also contains an...

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2006 Assessment Framework and Specifications is intended as a blueprint for IEA's 2006 assessment of reading literacy. Concrete information about how well students can read provides policymakers and researchers in every country with insight on how to improve literacy and reading achieveme...

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digit designates the correctness level of the response. The second digit, combined with the first, represents a diagnostic code used to identify specific types of approaches, strategies, or common errors and misconceptions. The scope of the free-response scoring effort was very complex. With large withincountry samples of students responding to the...

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In order to assess the statistical properties of the items before proceeding with item re- sponse theory (IRT) scaling (see Chapter 7), TIMSS computed a series of statistics for every item in every country. These basic item statistics (see Figure 6.1 for an example item) were produced by the IEA Data Processing Center. For each item, the basic dis-...

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) covered five different grade levels, with more than 40 countries collecting data in more than 30 different languages. More than a million students were tested. The present report contains the TIMSS results for students in the final year of secondary school. Mathematics and science litera...

Policy-makers in many nations are involved in educational reforms. To make effective educational decisions for the 21st century, policy-makers need information of a wide variety of kinds, such as comparative performance data and curriculum information from other nations. International surveys provide a broad base of information and allow countries...

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A recently completed landmark study of mathematics and science education in more than 40 countries gathered information that can help address questions as to why students in one country do better in math and science than students in another. This report focuses on the results of the primary school science test of students in 26 countries, from the...

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the most ambitious study conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement to date. TIMSS developed and administered tests and questionnaires in three student populations to study achievement in participating countries and the factors associated...

oses, even for the 11 countries that tested in English. To ensure the standardization of the instruments across languages and countries, and thus the comparability of the TIMSS data, explicit guidelines for translation and cultural adaptation were developed and comprehensive verification procedures were implemented. Specifically, the TIMSS instrume...

Students in Populations 1 and 2 completed questions about their attitudes towards mathematics and science, home background, out-of-school activities, and classroom activities and experiences. At Population 2 there were two versions of the student questionnaires; one version was intended for systems where science is taught as an in- tegrated subject...

PIRLS 2006 is an international reading assessment conducted at the fourth grade designed to measure trends in children's reading literacy achievement and to collect information about the policy and practices related to learning to read and reading instruction. The paper will provide an overview of the purpose and the study design of the PIRLS 2006...

10.1 Overview for tiMSS 2007, similar to the process used in tiMSS 2003 and previous assessments, the tiMSS & PiRLS international Study center conducted a review of a range of diagnostic statistics to examine and evaluate the psychometric characteristics of each achievement item in the 59 countries and 8 benchmarking participants that participated...

oses, even for the 11 countries that tested in English. Toensure the standardization of the instruments across languages and countries, and thus thecomparability of the TIMSS data, explicit guidelines for translation and cultural adaptationwere developed and comprehensive verification procedures were implemented. Specifically,the TIMSS instrument t...

Developing the TIMSS Advanced 2008 assessment began with work on the assessment framework in January 2006 and continued until July 2007, when the international version of the assessment was finalized for data collection. The development was a collaborative process involving the National Research Coordinators (NRCs) and item developers from particip...