Educational achievement of Serbian students in TIMSS 2011

dc.creator	Gašić-Pavišić Slobodanka
dc.creator	Stanković Dejan
dc.date	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:20:12Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:20:12Z
dc.identifier	10.2298/ZIPI1202243G
dc.identifier	0579-6431
dc.identifier	1820-9270
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/bc597697453142a69d084da085cf181d
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/20025
dc.description	This paper presents the main results of the international study of students’ mathematics and science achievement TIMSS 2011. The focus is on presentation and discussion of the results achieved by Serbian students. In Serbia, this study was conducted in the fourth grade of primary school on a nationally representative sample of students - a total of 4379 students from 156 primary schools were tested, i.e. 219 classes. The average achievement of students from Serbia was 516 points in mathematics and in science, which in both cases represents achievement that is significantly higher than the center point of the TIMSS 4th grade scale. The paper also presents results according to content domains, differences in achievement between boys and girls, as well as students’ distribution according to international benchmarks. The results are observed from the view point of overlapping of the Serbian curricula and the TIMSS test. Overall, these results can be seen as encouraging indicators of the Serbian education system for the first education cycle, particularly if we bear in mind relatively poor performance of students in higher grades in Serbia which had been shown in various previous studies. Since TIMSS findings should primarily be used in planning the development of education, the concluding part discusses the importance of regular participation of Serbia in international studies of this kind, as well as the importance of greater involvement of domestic researchers in analysis of available international databases. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 47008: Vrednovanje postignuća učenika u matematici i prirodnim naukama - TIMSS 2011, Unapređivanje kvaliteta i dostupnosti obrazovanja u procesima modernizacije Srbije i br. 179034: Od podsticanja inicijative, saradnje i stvaralaštva u obrazovanju do novih uloga i identiteta u društvu]
dc.language	Serbian
dc.publisher	Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
dc.relation	http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2012/0579-64311202243G.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/0579-6431
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1820-9270
dc.source	Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoška Istraživanja, Vol 44, Iss 2, Pp 243-265 (2012)
dc.subject	TIMSS
dc.subject	educational achievement
dc.subject	mathematics instruction
dc.subject	science instruction
dc.subject	Serbia
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Educational achievement of Serbian students in TIMSS 2011
dc.type	article