Session Information
09 SES 05 A, Findings from International Comparative Achievement Studies. Symposium Session 1: Relating Achievement to Background Factors in Cross-Sectional and Trend Perspectives
Symposium
Contribution
The aim of this study is to explore student, classroom and school factors behind the Finnish eighth and seventh grade students’ mathematics achievement: What are the background factors most strongly related to achievement in the Finnish educational context, and what are the changes in the explanatory models between TIMSS 1999 and TIMSS 2011? The conceptual framework for this study is based upon the IEA thinking on curriculum while the TIMSS curriculum model establishes a sound basis for the description of potentially effective factors for mathematics achievement. In total, about twenty background variables divided into five groups are explored. In analysing the data, multilevel modelling is applied. First tentative results show that the most significant predictors for students’ mathematics achievement are very similar in 1999 and 2011. Furthermore, the 3-level model based on TIMSS 2011 data provides new information regarding the distribution of the total variance in mathematics achievement, suggesting that differences between classes in mathematics achievement are bigger than thought before.
Method
Search the ECER Programme
- Search for keywords and phrases in "Text Search"
- Restrict in which part of the abstracts to search in "Where to search"
- Search for authors and in the respective field.
- For planning your conference attendance you may want to use the conference app, which will be issued some weeks before the conference
- If you are a session chair, best look up your chairing duties in the conference system (Conftool) or the app.