The International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement (IEA), the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS) published findings of international achievement studies. Discuss the conclusions related to the United States that emerged from analysis of the findings
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: The United States has a much greater spread between the performance of low- and high-achieving students than do some nations. The performance of high-achieving American students is comparable to that of the highest performers in other nations.
Social class is strongly correlated with achievement test scores in the United States. Math instruction in the United States (and in most countries) can be characterized as
“tell and show,” and the U.S. math curriculum is “highly differentiated.”
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