TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loveless,Tom
ED  - TIMSS International Study Center.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Lessons learned: what international assessments tell us about math achievement 
AV  - QA135.6 .L47 2007eb
U1  - 510.71 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
KW  - International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
KW  - Examinations
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Databases
KW  - Mathematical ability
KW  - Testing
KW  - Mathematics teachers
KW  - Science
KW  - Science teachers
KW  - Ability testing
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : secondary analysis of data from international assessments / Tom Loveless -- TIMSS in perspective : lessons learned from IEA's four decades of international mathematics assessments / Ina V. S. Mullis and Michael O. Martin -- Understanding causal influences on educational achievement through analysis of differences over time within countries / Jan-Eric Gustafsson -- Lack of focus in the the mathematics curriculum : symptom or cause? / William H. Schmidt and Richard T. Houang -- U.S. algebra performance in an international context / Jeremy Kilpatrick, Vilma Mesa, and Finbarr Sloane -- What can TIMSS surveys tell us about mathematics reforms in the United States during the 1990s? / Laura S. Hamilton and José Felipe Martínez -- School size and student achievement in TIMSS 2003 / Gabriela Schütz -- Examining educational technology and achievement through latent variable modeling / Elena C. Papanastasiou and Efi Paparistodemou -- Comparisons between PISA and TIMSS--are we the man with two watches? / Dougal Hutchison and Ian Schagen; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Examines student performance in mathematics, using the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study database to address pressing questions about school policy and educational research, including major lessons learned from TIMSS testing, comparison of math curricula across nations, effect of technology in the classroom, and progress of popular math reforms abroad"--Provided by publisher
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