Predicting variations in mathematics performance in four countries using TIMSS

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 9, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Koretz, Daniel ^a,c   McCaffrey, Daniel ^b,d   Sullivan, Thomas ^b,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAND Education   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^d RAND   (United States)

^e GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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