Key findings: Trends in Year 5 achievement 1994 to 2006

Erratum for the TIMSS 2006/07 Summary document - Trends in Year 5 achievement 1994 to 2006: Key findings from New Zealand’s participation in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

Published December 2008, revised August 2009

Note that in the international datasets for all countries the results for the Knowing and Applying cognitive scores were inadvertently mislabelled so all data labelled Knowing actually pertain to Applying and all data labelled Applying actually pertain to Knowing data. This error has been rectified in the on-line version of this report – any written copies should have this erratum attached.

Under the heading ‘Science’, subheading 3, ‘New Zealand science performance on content and cognitive domains’, the paragraph should read: Year 5 students demonstrated a relative strength in earth science questions compared to life and physical science. Students also performed relatively better on questions that involved demonstrating knowledge compared to applying knowledge or reasoning.

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