TIMSS 2006/07: Key findings trends in Year 5 achievement 1994 to 2006 Publications
Publication Details
This pamphlet presents the key findings from Year 5 students in TIMSS 2006/07. It was originally published in December 2008 and revised in September 2009 due to the mislabelling of the content domains knowing and applying. The current version rectifies this error.
Author(s): Robyn Caygill and Sarah Kirkham, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: December 2008
Key findings
Trends in mathematics achievement 1994–2006
There has been a significant overall improvement since the first TIMSS cycle in 1994/95. However, New Zealand’s mean mathematics achievement in 2006/07 was not significantly1 different from TIMSS 2002/03. The proportions of New Zealand students reaching the advanced, high, intermediate, and low benchmarks has not changed significantly since TIMSS 2002/03.
Trends in science achievement 1994–2006
The mean science achievement of New Zealand Year 5 students was about the same in 2006 as in 1994. Although results from 1994, 1998, and 2002, showed a steady increase, this trend did not continue in 2006 when the results returned to the 1994 levels. The range of New Zealand Year 5 science achievement was narrower in 2006 than in 1994, with fewer students demonstrating very high or very low achievement.
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