World math and science test results

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Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)ல் இந்தியாவை கணக்கில் சேர்த்துக்கல 😦

So-called third world countries that have a higher literacy rate than the U.S., like Costa Rica, and others that contribute a significant number of U.S. advance degreed immigrants, like India , were not part of this study; therefore, the results in terms of world competition are worse than portrayed in these charts.

அ) நான்காம் வகுப்பு கணிதம்:

1. Hong Kong, score: 607
2. Singapore, score: 599
3. Taiwan, score: 576
4. Massachusetts, US, score: 572
5. Japan, score: 568
6. Minnesota, US, score: 554
7. Kazakhstan, score: 549
8. Russia, score: 544
9. England, score: 541
10. Lithuania, score: 530
11. United States, score: 529
12. Germany, score: 525
13. Denmark, score: 523
14. Quebec, Canada, score: 519
15. Australia, score: 516
16. Ontario, Canada, score: 512

ஆ) நான்காம் வகுப்பு அறிவியல்:

1. Singapore, score: 587
2. Massachusetts, US, score: 571
3. Taiwan, score: 557
4. Hong Kong, score: 554
5. Minnesota, US, score: 551
6. Japan, score: 548
7. Russia, score: 546
8. Alberta, Canada, score: 543
9. England, score: 542
10. United States, score: 539
11. British Columbia, Canada, score: 537
12. Hungary, score: 536
13. Ontario, Canada, score: 536
14. Italy, score: 535
15. Kazakhstan, score: 533
16. Germany, score: 528
17. Australia, score: 527

இ) எட்டாம் வகுப்பு கணிதம்:

1. Taiwan, score: 598
2. Korea, Rep. of, score: 597
3. Singapore, score: 593
4. Hong Kong, score: 572
5. Japan, score: 570
6. Massachusetts, US, score: 547
7. Minnesota, US, score: 532
8. Quebec, Canada, score: 528
9. Ontario, Canada, score: 517
10. Hungary, score: 517
11. England, score: 513
12. Russia, score: 512
13. British Columbia, Canada, score: 509
14. United States, score: 508
15. Lithuania, score: 506
16. Czech, score: 504
17. Slovenia, score: 501
18. Armenia, score: 499
19. Basque Country, Spain, score: 499
20. Australia, score: 496
21. Sweden, score: 491

ஈ) எட்டாம் வகுப்பு அறிவியல்:

1. Singapore, score: 567
2. Taiwan, score: 561
3. Massachusetts, US, score: 556
4. Japan, score: 554
5. Korea, Rep. of, score: 553
6. England, score: 542
7. Hungary, score: 539
8. Minnesota, US, score: 539
9. Czech, score: 539
10. Slovenia, score: 538
11. Hong Kong, score: 530
12. Russia, score: 530
13. Ontario, Canada, score: 526
14. British Columbia, Canada, score: 526
15. United States, score: 520
16. Lithuania, score: 519
17. Australia, score: 515
18. Sweden, score: 511
19. Quebec, Canada, score: 507

முழு விவரங்கள்:

1. Survey: Highlights From TIMSS 2007 (pdf)

2. Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students – NYTimes.com

3. U.S. Students Make Gains in Math Scores – WSJ.com

4. Mass. pupils’ math-science test scores near top internationally – The Boston Globe

5. The progress of school education in India by Geeta Gandhi Kingdon :: March 2007

இந்தியாவும் பள்ளிப்படிப்பும்: குறிப்புகள்

1. None of the South Asian countries nor China participated in the international studies of learning achievement such as the .Trends in International Mathematics and Science. Study (TIMSS 2003) in which 46 countries participated, or in the .Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. (PIRLS 2001) in which 35 countries participated.

Moreover, South Asia does not have the equivalent of the SACMEQ study, which is a regional inter-country comparative study of achievement levels in 14 African countries. However, World Bank (2006) applied the TIMSS questions to secondary school students in the Indian states of Rajasthan and Orissa, with permission of the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The findings show that international mean achievement in maths test was 52 percent for grade 8 students but the average scores of Rajasthan and Orissa students on the same test were 34 and 37 percent respectively. Similarly, the international mean of achievement was 57 percent for Grade 12 students but the corresponding scores for Indian students were 44 and 38 percent in Rajasthan and Orissa respectively.

However, the high international average percentage mark from the 46 TIMSS countries included both high and low income countries. When India did participate in international studies of learning achievement in early 1970s, the performance of Indian children was poor relative to most participating developing countries, according to the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).

2. International comparison of achievement among school-going 14 year olds across 25 high and low-income countries, using IEA data collected in early 1970s, showed that the mean science test score of Indian students was the second lowest.

Iran was behind India by a small margin. Mean scores of students in Bolivia, Thailand, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay were all higher than those of Indian students; the mean score of Japanese students was twice as high as that of Indian students.

The results were similar in (own language) reading comprehension: median reading score was 26 points, Chile’s mean was 14 points, Iran’s 8 points and India’s the lowest at 5 points.