Learning from TIMSS
Subtitle: an NRC symposium on the results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Science; Study and teaching; Evaluation; Mathematics; Academic achievement; Third International Mathematics and Science Study
Notes: "Papers prepared for a symposium"

"February 3-4, 1997"

"The papers reproduced in this volume were prepared for a conference sponsored by the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education, the Board on Testing and Assessment, and the Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education under the auspices of the National Research Council."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Exploring and explaining U.S. TIMSS performance  -- Edward H. Haertel; title: Qualities of instruction and varieties of qualitative  -- Michael Huberman; title: Using TIMSS in a world of educational change  -- J. Myron Atkin, Paul Bloch; title: Education policy and practice in the aftermath of TIMSS  -- Richard F. Elmore; title: Looking through the TIMSS-mirror from a teaching angle  -- Jan de Lange; title: Comments on "Implications of TIMSS for policy and practice" by Richard Elmore -- Daryl E. Chubin.; title: Using TIMSS in a world of change: comments at the National Academy of Sciences -- Stephen P. Heyneman.