Tables |
| Table 1 |
Average science scale scores of eighth-grade students,
by country: 1995, 1999, and 2003 |
| Table 2 |
Average percentage distribution of eighth-grade science
lesson time devoted to different types of lesson purposes, by country:
1999 |
| Table 3 |
Percentage distribution of eighth-grade science lessons devoted to life science, earth science, physics, chemistry, and other areas, by country: 1999 |
Figures |
| Figure 1 |
TIMSS 1999 Video Study: Science conceptual framework |
| Figure 2 |
Average percentage distribution of science instruction time in eighth-grade science lessons devoted to each combination of social organization type and science activity, by country: 1999 |
| Figure 3 |
Percentage distribution of eighth-grade science lessons devoted to life science, earth science, physics, chemistry, and other areas, by country: 1999 |
| Figure 4 |
Average percentage of public talk time in eighth-grade science lessons devoted to canonical knowledge, by country: 1999 |
| Figure 5 |
Percentage distribution of eighth-grade science lessons that were judged to contain challenging content, basic and challenging content, and basic content, by country: 1999. |
| Figure 6 |
Percentage distribution of eighth-grade science lessons by focus and strength of conceptual links, by country: 1999 |
| Figure 7 |
Percentage distribution of eighth-grade science lessons that developed science content primarily by making connections and by acquiring facts, definitions, and algorithms, by country: 1999 |
| Figure 8 |
Percentage of eighth-grade science lessons that supported all main ideas with more than one set of first-hand data, phenomena, and visual representations, by country: 1999 |
| Figure 9 |
Average percentage distribution of science instruction time per eighth-grade science lesson devoted to public presentations and discussions during whole-class work, by country: 1999 |
| Figure 10 |
Average percentage of science instruction time in eighth-grade science lessons allocated to motivating activities, by country: 1999 |