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ERIC Number: EJ517148
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
Surveying Educational Opportunity in Mathematics and Science: An International Perspective.
Schmidt, William H.; McKnight, Curtis C.
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v17 n3 p337-53 Fall 1995
This article focuses on educational opportunity as an organizing construct of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), in contrast with traditional opportunity-to-learn measures. A new conceptualization of educational opportunity is needed for cross-national studies. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Indicators, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Evaluation Methods, International Studies, Mathematics, Measurement Techniques, Science Education
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Opportunity to Learn; Third International Mathematics and Science Study
Note: Versions of articles in this issue were presented at a special symposium entitled "Sleepless in Woodland Hills: The Leigh Burstein Legacy" at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 18-22, 1995).