| Figure 15-2: Average mathematics scale scores of 8th-grade students, by country: 2007 |
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1 Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. 2 Met guidelines for sample participation rates only after substitute schools were included. 3 National Defined Population covered 90 to 95 percent of National Target Population. 4 National Target Population did not include all of the International Target Population. 5 National Defined Population covers less than 90 percent of National Target Population (but at least 77 percent). 6 Kuwait tested the same cohort of students as other countries, but later in 2007, at the beginning of the next school year. NOTE: Countries are ordered by 2007 average score. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) scale average was established with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100, based on the average of all the countries that participated in 1995. Successive TIMSS assessments have scaled achievement data so that scores are equivalent from assessment to assessment. That is, a score of 500 in grade 8 mathematics in 2007 is equivalent to a score of 500 in grade 8 mathematics in 2003, 1999, and 1995. For more information on the TIMSS, see supplemental note 5 SOURCE: Gonzales, P., Williams, T., Jocelyn, L., Roey, S., Kastberg, D., and Brenwald, S. (2008). Highlights From TIMSS 2007: Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context (NCES 2009-001), table 3, data from International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2007. |
