Key findings: Trends in Year 5 achievement 1994 to 2006

Information

National Reports

The two documents listed below are the beginning of a series of reports about New Zealand’s participation in TIMSS 2006/07 on the TIMSS homepage here on Education Counts. Further analyses will be undertaken including investigation into what is happening in mathematics and science in schools from information collected from teachers and principals; additional reports will be released in 2009.

Trends in Year 5 mathematics achievement 1994 to 2006: New Zealand results from three cycles of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

Authors: Robyn Caygill and Sarah Kirkham [Ministry of Education]

Trends in Year 5 science achievement 1994 to 2006: New Zealand results from three cycles of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

Author: Robyn Caygill [Ministry of Education]

These reports describe the mathematics and science achievement of Year 5 students in TIMSS 2006/07. Trends in New Zealand’s achievement over the 12 years from 1994 to 2006 are examined, along with comparisons with other countries. Analyses of achievement by sub-groupings (such as gender and ethnicity) and background information are also presented.

International Reports

International findings for mathematics (Mullis, Martin & Foy, 2008) and science (Martin, Mullis & Foy, 2008) for TIMSS 2006/07 have been published by the IEA and are available from IEA http://www.iea.nl/ and TIMSS & PIRLS study centre http://timss.bc.edu/.

The 'TIMSS 2007 technical report' (Olson, Martin, & Mullis (Eds.), 2008) contains a detailed account of the procedures for scoring, translation of materials, sampling, survey operations, quality assurance, sampling weights, item analysis, scaling, and reporting.

The 'TIMSS 2007 user guide for the international database' (to be published in early 2009) contains information on how to analyse the data.

TIMSS also publishes the 'TIMSS 2007 encyclopedia: a guide to mathematics and science education around the world' (Mullis, Martin, Olson, Berger, Milne, & Stanco (Eds.) 2008) in order to provide a context in which the TIMSS results can be examined. This encyclopaedia contains short reports from each country describing mathematics and science education policies and practices in that country. can be examined. This encyclopaedia contains short reports from each country describing mathematics and science education policies and practices in that country.

List of countries in TIMSS 2006/07 who tested at Year 5 level