Surviving TIMSS: Or, everything you blissfully forgot about international comparisons

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 295-300

  Baker, David P ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b American Institutes for Research ^*  (United States)

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References (18)

1. Judith Torney-Purta, "The Role of Comparative Education in the Debate on Excellence," in Robert Lawson, Val Rust, and Susanne Shafer, eds., Education and Social Concern: An Approach to Social Foundations (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Prakken Publications, 1987), pp. 80-89.
2. National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983), p. 5.
3. Ibid., A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, p. 8.
4. National Center for Education Statistics, International Mathematics and Science Assessments: What Have We Learned? (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1992).
5. Warwick Elley, How in the World Do Students Read? IEA Study of Reading Literacy (The Hague: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 1992).
6. See, for example, Gerald W. Bracey, "The Second Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1992, pp. 104-17;
7. idem, Gerald W. Bracey, "Research," Phi Delta Kappan, April 1994, pp. 649-51;
8. idem, Gerald W. Bracey, "International Comparisons and the Condition of American Education," Educational Researcher, January/February 1996, pp. 5-11;
9. David Berliner and Bruce Biddle, The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995);
10. Iris Rotberg, "I Never Promised You First Place," Phi Delta Kappan, December 1990, pp. 296-303;
11. and Ian Westbury, "Comparing American and Japanese Achievement: Is the United States Really an Underachiever?," Educational Researcher, June/July 1992, pp. 18-24.
12. See my response to Westbury, op. cit., and the subsequent exchange between us: David P. Baker, "Compared to Japan, the U.S. Is a Low Achiever... Really: New Evidence and Comment on Westbury," Educational Researcher, April 1993, pp. 18-20;
13. Ian Westbury, "American and Japanese Achievement... Again: A Response to Baker," Educational Researcher, April 1993, pp. 21-25;
14. and David P. Baker, "A Rejoinder," Educational Researcher, April 1993, pp. 25-26.
15. See also Lawrence C. Stedman, "Incomplete Explanations: The Case of U.S. Performance in the International Assessments of Education," Educational Researcher, October 1994, pp. 24-32.
16. Bracey, "International Comparisons."
17. National Center for Education Statistics, Pursuing Excellence: A Study of U.S. Fourth-Grade and Eighth-Grade Mathematics and Science Teaching, Learning, Curriculum, and Achievement in International Context (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, NCES 97-198, 1996).
18. Bruce Fuller and Richard Rubinson, eds., The Political Construction of Education (New York: Praeger, 1992).