TIMSS Advanced 2015 Fact Sheet
- 2013 (February–December): framework and instrument development
- 2014 (March–April): field test
- 2015 (March–June): data collection
- 2016 (November): release of international reports
- 2017 (February): release of international database
- Monitor global trends in the achievement of students in their final year of secondary school who are engaged in advanced mathematics and physics studies that prepare them to enter STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programs in higher education.
- Provide country-level information about the numbers of students and the proportion of the overall student population who are participating in advanced mathematics and physics study at the end of secondary school.
- Gain a better understanding of how advanced mathematics and physics programs or tracks are organized in various countries, as well as how their organization, curricula, instructional resources, and practices can help support and expand the pipeline of students entering a STEM career.
- Gather and provide information and data for improving learning and teaching in advanced mathematics and physics.
- Advanced mathematics
- Physics
The advanced mathematics and physics curriculum (overarching concept)
- As intended to be taught – intended curriculum
- As implemented in the classroom – implemented curriculum
- As learned by students – achieved curriculum
The advanced mathematics assessment framework
- Content dimension
- Cognitive dimension
The physics assessment framework
- Content dimension
- Cognitive dimension
The contextual framework
- National and community contexts
- School contexts
- Classroom contexts
- Student characteristics and attitudes toward learning
Number
9 countries
List
France, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United States
For advanced mathematics, the Russian Federation participated with two populations of students—Profile students and a subset of those students who were in an even more intensive program
Target population (students)
For advanced mathematics, all students in the final year of secondary schooling attending advanced mathematics courses in one of the participating countries.
For physics, all students in the final year of secondary schooling attending physics courses in one of the participating countries.
Sample (students)
- Per country
- The school sample aimed for was 150 schools, but the actual number of participating schools varied by country.
- The student sample varied by country.
- In total, approximately 32,000 advanced mathematics students and 24,000 physics students participated
Large-scale assessments of student achievement
- Advanced mathematics and physics, final year of secondary school
- 6 advanced mathematics booklets, 6 physics booklets, matrix sampling design
Background questionnaires
- Student questionnaire – advanced mathematics
- Student questionnaire – physics
- Teacher questionnaire – advanced mathematics
- Teacher questionnaire – physics
- School questionnaire
- Curriculum questionnaires
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- TIMSS Advanced 2015 - about (website)
- TIMSS Advanced 2015 - about (pdf)
- TIMSS Advanced 2015 assessment frameworks
- TIMSS 2015 Advanced assessment design
- TIMSS Advanced 2015 development of achievement items
- TIMSS Advanced 2015 development of context questionnaires
- TIMSS Advanced 2015 context questionnaire framework
- TIMSS Advanced 2015 methods and procedures
- TIMSS 2015 methods and procedures
- TIMSS Advanced 2015 schedule (exhibit 1.2)
- TIMSS Advanced 2015 schedule (exhibit 2.1)