• Public school students’ average score was 542 at grade 8.
• Higher percentages of Colorado 8th-graders performed at or above each of the four TIMSS international benchmarks than the international medians. For example, 14 percent of 8th- graders in Colorado performed at or above the Advanced benchmark (625) compared to the international median of 4 percent at grade 8 (see figure 12, Highlights from TIMSS 2011).
• In Colorado males outperformed females by 11 score points, on average, in science (see figure 14, Highlights from TIMSS 2011). Male and female students in Colorado scored higher, on average, in science than the TIMSS scale average (table 2).
• White, Asian, and multiracial students’ average scores were higher than the TIMSS scale average. Black and Hispanic students’ average scores were not measurably different (table 2).
• Students in public schools with at least 10 percent but less than 50 percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch scored higher, on average, than the TIMSS scale average. Average scores of students in public schools in other categories of eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch were not measurably different from the TIMSS scale average, including those in schools where less than 10 percent were eligible.

Suggested Citation: Provasnik, S., Kastberg, D., Ferraro, D., Lemanski, N., Roey, S., and Jenkins, F. (2012). Highlights From TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context (NCES 2013-009). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.