Comparisons between PISA and TIMSS-are we the man with two watches?

Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us About Math Achievement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 227-261

  Hutchison, Dougal ^a   Schagen, Ian ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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