The NCES report on TIMMS-R is out. This is the 1999 test that follows up
on the 1995 test, which we've talked about before. Here, the eigth
graders were the fourth graders (or their cohort members, anyway) in
1995. This allows to see what progress or decline was made in those four
years, or so the study implies.
The report is downloadable in .pdf format, either as a whole or broken
into two separate parts. The entire report is at
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001028.pdf
The report can also be obtained by downloading both of these sections:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001028a.pdf
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001028b.pdf
Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2000-12-07 20:42:00 Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >
> > I cannot help but think that lack of knowledge of SI contributed to the
> poor
> > scores as well as general American innumerancy.
> >
> > Norm
> >
>
> Especially since the article I read on this in The Washington Post indicated
> that an inordinately large amount of time was spent teaching US students --
> fractions.
>
> Carleton
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