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Direct linkWu, Margaret – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
This study compares the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 Mathematics results with the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 Grade 8 mathematics results, using country mean scores for 22 participants of both studies. It is found that Western countries generally performed better in PISA than in…
Descriptors: Test Results, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Comparative Analysis
Istrate, Olimpius; Noveanu, Gabriela; Smith, Thomas M. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
The shift from a centrally-controlled to a market-oriented economy in the early 1990s put pressure on the Romanian education system to reform both the curriculum and methods of instruction employed in primary and secondary education. At least part of the pressure to implement educational reforms came from the relatively poor performance of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Teaching Methods
Kiamanesh, Ali Reza – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
This article explores the factors that contribute most to the Iranian students' mathematical achievement using the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 99 data. Mathematics achievement involves a complex interaction of factors that have specific direct effects and/or indirect effects through other factors on school outcomes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement, Gender Differences
