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Suggested Citation:"Appendix 4: TIMSS Reporting Plan." National Research Council. 1996. Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn From The Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5508.
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Appendix 4:
TIMSS Reporting Plans

October 1996

Characterizing Pedagogical Flow (SMSO report)

Many Visions, Many Aims: A Cross-National Investigation of Curricular Intentions in School Mathematics

Many Visions, Many Aims: A Cross-National Investigation of Curricular Intentions in School Science

A Splintered Vision: An Investigation of U.S. Science and Mathematics Education

November 1996

Eighth-Grade Mathematics and Science Performance in International Perspective

Findings from the U.S. Assessments and Questionnaires

Technical Report on the U.S. Findings and Questionnaires

TIMSS Classroom Videotape Studies: Preliminary Findings and Methodology

Findings from Ethnographic Case Studies in Germany, Japan, and the U.S.

Databases (U.S. assessments and questionnaires, mathematics classroom instruction videotapes, case study interview and field notes)

Summer 1997

Fourth-Grade Achievement and Questionnaire Results

Winter 1998

Twelfth-Grade Achievement and Questionnaire Results

Additional reports, papers, and analyses will continue for several years.

For additional information about TIMSS, contact:

Dr. William H. Schmidt
U.S. National Research Coordinator
TIMSS Curriculum Analysis Project
Michigan State University
College of Education
457 Erickson Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
bschmidt@pilot.msu.edu
O: 517-353-7755
http://ustimss.mus.edu

Dr. Larry Suter
TIMSS Program Officer
National Science Foundation
Division of Research, Evaluation, and Communication
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
O: 703-306-1650
lsuter@nsf.gov

Dr. Albert Beaton
Director
TIMSS International Study Center
Campion Hall 323
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02167
O: 617-552-4521
timss@hermes.bc.edu

Dr. Lois Peak
TIMSS Project Officer
U.S. Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics
555 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Room 402A
Washington, DC 20208
O: 202-219-1804
lois_peak@ed.gov
http://www.ed.gov/nces/timss.html

A brochure summarizing this report entitled Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn? is also available. For copies of this publication, write:

Mathematical Sciences Education Board or Committee on Science Education K-12
Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education
National Research Council
2101 Constitution Ave., NW (HA 450), Washington, DC 20418
timss@nas.edu

Suggested Citation:"Appendix 4: TIMSS Reporting Plan." National Research Council. 1996. Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn From The Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5508.
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Mathematical Sciences Education Board

Hyman Bass (Chair), Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York

Glenda T. Lappan (Vice Chair), Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Sadie C. Bragg, Academic Affairs and Department of Mathematics, The City University of New York

Gail F. Burrill, National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Education, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Shari Ann Wilson Coston, Arkansas Education Renewal Consortium, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia

Shelley K. Ferguson, Eastlake Elementary School, San Diego, California

Melvin D. George, President Emeritus, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

Roger E. Howe, Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Bruce Jacobs, Oakland Electronic Commerce Resource Center, Oakland, California

Rick D. Jennings, Eisenhower High School, Yakima, Washington

Harvey B. Keynes, Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

James R.C. Leitzel, Department of Mathematics, University of New Hampshire, Durham

Paul G. LeMahieu, University of Delaware and Delaware Department of Public Instruction, Newark

Tony Q. Martinez, Leander High School, Leander, Texas

Pamela E. Matthews, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University, Washington, D.C.

Margaret Hagen Wright, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

Committee on Science Education K-12

Jane Butler Kahle (Chair), Department of Teacher Education, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Joseph D. McInerney (Vice Chair), Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Pikes Peak Research Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado

J. Myron Atkin, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Caryl Edward Buchwald, Department of Geology, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

George Bugliarello, Chancellor, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York

Christine Chopyak-Minor, Keystone Science School, Keystone, Colorado

Peter B. Dow, Buffalo Museum of Science, New York

William E. Dugger, Jr., Technology for All Americans, Blacksburg, Virginia

Wade Ellis, Jr., Department of Mathematics, West Valley College, Saratoga, California

Norman Hackerman, The Robert A. Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas

William Hammers, Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita, Kansas

Robert Hazen, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., and George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Michael G. Lang, Phoenix Urban Systemic Initiative, Maricopa Community College, Tempe, Arizona

William Linder-Scholer, SciMathMN, St. Paul, Minnesota

Maria Alicia Lopez Freeman, Center for Teacher Leadership in Language and Status, California Science Project, Monterey Park

John A. Moore, Department of Biology, University of California at Riverside

Darlene Norfleet, Flynn Park Elementary School, University City, Missouri

William Spooner, Instructional Services, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh

Judith Sydner-Gordon, TEAMS Science Distance Learning Instructor, Los Angeles County Office of Education, Downey, California

Rachel Wood, Science Frameworks Commission, Delaware State Department of Public Instruction, Dover

Suggested Citation:"Appendix 4: TIMSS Reporting Plan." National Research Council. 1996. Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn From The Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5508.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix 4: TIMSS Reporting Plan." National Research Council. 1996. Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn From The Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5508.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix 4: TIMSS Reporting Plan." National Research Council. 1996. Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn From The Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5508.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix 4: TIMSS Reporting Plan." National Research Council. 1996. Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn From The Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5508.
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Amid current efforts to improve mathematics and science education in the United States, people often ask how these subjects are organized and taught in other countries. They hear repeatedly that other countries produce higher student achievement. Teachers and parents wonder about the answers to questions like these: Why do the children in Asian cultures seem to be so good at science and mathematics? How are biology and physics taught in the French curriculum? What are textbooks like elsewhere, and how much latitude do teachers have in the way they follow the texts? Do all students receive the same education, or are they grouped by ability or perceived educational promise? If students are grouped, how early is this done? What are tests like, and what are the consequences for students? Are other countries engaged in Standards-like reforms? Does anything like "standards" play a role in other countries? Questions such as these reflect more than a casual interest in other countries' educational practices. They grow out of an interest in identifying ways to improve mathematics and science education in the United States.

The focus of this short report is on what the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), a major international investigation of curriculum, instruction, and learning in mathematics and science, will be able to contribute to understandings of mathematics and science education around the world as well as to current efforts to improve student learning, particularly in the United States.

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