DOI: 10.3886/icpsr30601.v1
title: Third International Mathematics and Science Study: International Curriculum Analysis, 1992-1995
title: Version 1

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 Textbook Specific and Curriculum Guide Specific 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 General Topic Trace Mapping data files contain questionnaire responses for each specific science and mathematics topic for each grade. The Document Description data file contains document ID, name, subject, publisher and publishing data for each document provided by each country in the study. The Unit Level data files contain information describing a specific unit within a document, used for both textbooks and curriculum guides. The Block Level data files contain specific curricular information about the blocks contained within each unit. The Textbook Coverage 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 Textbook Characteristics 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: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Created variable labels and/or value labels.; Created online analysis version with question text.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
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: self-enumerated questionnaire 
The 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.
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