Policy Perils of International Comparisons The TIMSS Case

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 22-28

  Myron Atkin, J ^a   Black, Paul ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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References (15)

1. The authors of this article were co-chairs of the steering committee for the OECD project.
2. The American studies and some of the coordination of the overall project were supported 50/50 by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation. Senta Raizen of the National Center for Improving Science Education was the project coordinator.
3. Paul Black and J. Myron Atkin, Changing the Subject: Innovations in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education (London and Paris: Routledge and the OECD, 1996).
4. Senta Raizen and Edward D. Britton, eds., Bold Ventures, Vol. 1: Patterns of U.S. Innovations in Science and Mathematics Education; Vol. 2: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Science Education; Vol. 3: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Mathematics Education (Boston and Andover, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers and The Network, Inc., 1996).
5. Senta Raizen and Edward D. Britton, eds., Bold Ventures, Vol. 1: Patterns of U.S. Innovations in Science and Mathematics Education; Vol. 2: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Science Education; Vol. 3: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Mathematics Education (Boston and Andover, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers and The Network, Inc., 1996).
6. Senta Raizen and Edward D. Britton, eds., Bold Ventures, Vol. 1: Patterns of U.S. Innovations in Science and Mathematics Education; Vol. 2: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Science Education; Vol. 3: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Mathematics Education (Boston and Andover, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers and The Network, Inc., 1996).
7. Senta Raizen and Edward D. Britton, eds., Bold Ventures, Vol. 1: Patterns of U.S. Innovations in Science and Mathematics Education; Vol. 2: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Science Education; Vol. 3: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Mathematics Education (Boston and Andover, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers and The Network, Inc., 1996).
8. National Research Council, National Science Education Standards (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996).
9. Mathematics Achievement in the Middle School Years (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: TIMSS International Study Center, Boston College, 1996), p. 77.
10. Science Achievement in the Middle School Years (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: TIMSS International Study Center, Boston College, 1996). Subsequent references to this volume are given parenthetically in the text.
11. U.S. National Research Center for TIMSS, A Splintered Vision: An Investigation of U.S. Mathematics and Science Education: Executive Summary (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1996), p. 3. See also William A. Schmidt, Curtis C. McKnight, and Senta Raizen, A Splintered Vision: An Investigation of U.S. Science and Mathematics Education (Boston: Kluwer, 1997).
12. U.S. National Research Center for TIMSS, A Splintered Vision: An Investigation of U.S. Mathematics and Science Education: Executive Summary (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1996), p. 3. See also William A. Schmidt, Curtis C. McKnight, and Senta Raizen, A Splintered Vision: An Investigation of U.S. Science and Mathematics Education (Boston: Kluwer, 1997).
13. The United States is an exception because the National Research Council's standards encompass teaching, professional development, assessment, program, and system standards as well as content.
14. U.S. National Research Center for TIMSS, p. 3.
15. National Research Council, op. cit.