DOI: 10.3886/icpsr30601
title: Third International Mathematics and Science Study: International Curriculum Analysis, 1992-1995
title: Archival Version

description: The International Curriculum Analysis (ICA) study provided curricular and textbook information from each country participating in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). TIMSS was a comparative study of education in mathematics and the sciences conducted in over 40 countries on five continents. The goal of TIMSS was to measure student achievement in mathematics and science in participating countries and to assess some of the curricular and classroom factors that are related to student learning in these subjects. The study was intended to provide educators and policy makers with an unparalleled and multidimensional perspective on mathematics and science curricula; their implementation; the nature of student performance in mathematics and science; and the social, economic, and educational context in which these occur.
Below is a description of each of the types of data files found in this study.
The <strong>Textbook Specific and Curriculum Guide Specific</strong> data files contain overall characteristic information, the number of pages, size of book, publisher, etc. pertaining to material used within a country for all countries involved in the study.
The <strong>General Topic Trace Mapping</strong> data files contain questionnaire responses for each specific science and mathematics topic for each grade.
The <strong>Document Description</strong> data file contains document ID, name, subject, publisher and publishing data for each document provided by each country in the study.
The <strong>Unit Level</strong> data files contain information describing a specific unit within a document, used for both textbooks and curriculum guides.
The <strong>Block Level</strong> data files contain specific curricular information about the blocks contained within each unit.
The <strong>Textbook Coverage</strong> data files contain summaries of context coverage for each country's textbooks and the performance expectation codes of those textbooks, both Mathematics and Science. The coverage rate for each content topic is expressed as the average percent that particular topic is mentioned in each of the country's textbooks.
The <strong>Textbook Characteristics</strong> data file contains derived variables from 400 textbooks used in 45 countries. The variables captures the frequency with which content material such as activities, exercise or question sets, instructional narratives and other instructional tools, as well as performance expectation related material are found within these textbooks.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Textbook Specific Data
DS2: Curriculum Guide Specific Data
DS3: Mathematics General Topic Trace Mapping
DS4: Science General Topic Trace Mapping
DS5: Document Description
DS6: Argentina Unit Level Data
DS7: Argentina Block Level Data
DS8: Australia Unit Level Data
DS9: Australia Block Level Data
DS10: Austria Unit Level Data
DS11: Austria Block Level Data
DS12: Belgium (Flemish) Unit Level Data
DS13: Belgium (Flemish) Block Level Data
DS14: Belgium (French) Unit Level Data
DS15: Belgium (French) Block Level Data
DS16: Bulgaria Unit Level Data
DS17: Bulgaria Block Level Data
DS18: Canada Unit Level Data
DS19: Canada Block Level Data
DS20: China Unit Level Data
DS21: China Block Level Data
DS22: Columbia Unit Level Data
DS23: Columbia Block Level Data
DS24: Cyprus Unit Level Data
DS25: Cyprus Block Level Data
DS26: Czech Republic Unit Level Data
DS27: Czech Republic Block Level Data
DS28: Slovak Republic Unit Level Data
DS29: Slovak Republic Block Level Data
DS30: Denmark Unit Level Data
DS31: Denmark Block Level Data
DS32: Dominican Republic Unit Level Data
DS33: Dominican Republic Block Level Data
DS34: France Unit Level Data
DS35: France Block Level Data
DS36: Germany Unit Level Data
DS37: Germany Block Level Data
DS38: Greece Unit Level Data
DS39: Greece Block Level Data
DS40: Hong Kong Unit Level Data
DS41: Hong Kong Block Level Data
DS42: Hungary Unit Level Data
DS43: Hungary Block Level Data
DS44: Iceland Unit Level Data
DS45: Iceland Block Level Data
DS46: Iran Unit Level Data
DS47: Iran Block Level Data
DS48: Ireland Unit Level Data
DS49: Ireland Block Level Data
DS50: Israel Unit Level Data
DS51: Israel Block Level Data
DS52: Italy Unit Level Data
DS53: Italy Block Level Data
DS54: Japan Unit Level Data
DS55: Japan Block Level Data
DS56: Korea Unit Level Data
DS57: Korea Block Level Data
DS58: Latvia Unit Level Data
DS59: Latvia Block Level Data
DS60: Lithuania Unit Level Data
DS61: Lithuania Block Level Data
DS62: Mexico Unit Level Data
DS63: Mexico Block Level Data
DS64: Netherlands Unit Level Data
DS65: Netherlands Block Level Data
DS66: New Zealand Unit Level Data
DS67: New Zealand Block Level Data
DS68: Norway Unit Level Data
DS69: Norway Block Level Data
DS70: Phillippines Unit Level Data
DS71: Phillippines Block Level Data
DS72: Portugal Unit Level Data
DS73: Portugal Block Level Data
DS74: Romania Unit Level Data
DS75: Romania Block Level Data
DS76: Russian Federation Unit Level Data
DS77: Russian Federation Block Level Data
DS78: Singapore Unit Level Data
DS79: Singapore Block Level Data
DS80: South Africa Unit Level Data
DS81: South Africa Block Level Data
DS82: Spain Unit Level Data
DS83: Spain Block Level Data
DS84: Sweden Unit Level Data
DS85: Sweden Block Level Data
DS86: Switzerland Unit Level Data
DS87: Switzerland Block Level Data
DS88: Thailand Unit Level Data
DS89: Thailand Block Level Data
DS90: Tunisia Unit Level Data
DS91: Tunisia Block Level Data
DS92: Scotland Unit Level Data
DS93: Scotland Block Level Data
DS94: United States Unit Level Data
DS95: United States Block Level Data
DS96: Slovenia Unit Level Data
DS97: Slovenia Block Level Data
DS98: Mathematics Textbook Coverage - Population 1 Data
DS99: Mathematics Textbook Coverage - Population 2 Data
DS100: Science Textbook Coverage - Population 1 Data
DS101: Science Textbook Coverage - Population 2 Data
DS102: Textbook Characteristics Data
description: Mathematics and Science textbooks for students age 9, 13, and in their final year of secondary education, including those in vocational education programs. Smallest Geographic Unit: country
description: self-enumerated questionnaireThe international curriculum analysis was conducted in each country under the direction of the TIMSS National Research Coordinator (NRC) and the national research center in coordination with the United States TIMSS National Research Center.Materials were collected from each country that reflected those used by the majority of the students in each population.