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Trends in international Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2003) What?
TIMSS, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, is designed to help countries all over the world improve student learning in mathematics and science. It collects educational achievement data at the fourth and eighth grades to provide information about trends in performance over time together with extensive background information to address concerns about the quantity, quality, and content of instruction. Why?
TIMSS provides important information for policy development, to foster public accountability, to allow areas of progress or decline in achievement to be identified and monitored, and to address concerns for equity. Who?
Approximately 50 countries from all over the world, including South Africa, participate in TIMSS. A project of the IEA headquartered in Amsterdam, it is directed by the TIMSS International Study Center at Boston College in collaboration with a worldwide network of organizations and representatives from the participating countries. When?
The TIMSS 2003 data collection was completed last year, and the results was released on 14 December at 17:00 South African time, from Boston, USA. International results TIMSS 2003 South African component of TIMSS 2003
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