How does the mathematics and science achievement of US students on TIMSS compare with achievement on PISA?
As we have seen, the TIMSS 2007 results at 8th grade, the grade closest to the age of the PISA students, showed U.S. average scores higher than the TIMSS scale average in both mathematics and science. In PISA 2006, the average scores of U.S. 15-year-old students were below the OECD average—the average score of students in the 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. How do we reconcile the apparent differences? The differences are difficult to reconcile, but also difficult to compare, because the assessments are so different in at least three key ways that could influence results. First, TIMSS assesses 8th- and 4th-graders, while PISA is an assessment of 15-year-old students, regardless of grade level. In the United States, PISA data collection occurs in the autumn, when most 15-year-olds are in 10th grade. So, the grade levels of students in PISA and TIMSS differ. Second, the knowledge and skills measured in the two assessments differ. PISA is focused on app
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