Hiebert 2003 TIMSS Highlights *come back to this*

Question 1

When this study was conducted, US, 8th graders, were on average, among the top scoring in MAth in the US

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The authors found that if you want your students to perform well on maths tests, you must teach

Answer 2

as they do in Japan.

Question 3

What are the key concepts in what we read?

Question 4

What question(s) did the author(s) set out to answer?

Question 5

How did the author(s) go about studying their research question(s)?

Question 6

Major Finding 1

Answer 6

1. All countries share a number of teaching features
2. Most lessons included both whole class and individual work

Question 7

Major finding 2

Answer 7

1. High-achieving countries teach mathematics in different ways (i.e variation among high-achieving countries)
2. for example
   
   1. Time Spent per problem: average of 2 (Netherlands) to 15 (Japan) minutes
   2. % of problems presented in real-life contexts (high in Netherlands, low in Japan)

Question 8

Major finding 3

Answer 8

1. High-achieving countries share a few, potentially important features
   
   1. All the higher-achieving countries (except for Cz) spent more time working on new content than reviewing old content
   2. When teachers present problem that suggest connections will be made,they rearley follow through wiht that

Question 9

Why should we care?

Answer 9

1. The US could be doing better than it actually is
2. US teaching practices might also profit from improvement
3. High achieving countries are a source of ideas
   
   1. Spend less time reviewing
   2. spend more time making connections
   3. caveat: teaching is a system

Question 10

What do we get out of international studies

Answer 10

• Reveal one’s own practices more clearly
• Discover new alternatives
• Stimulate discussion about choices
• Construct more informed hypotheses about teaching and its effects

Question 11

TIMS (Third International Math and Science Study) → (Trends International Math and Science Study)

Answer 11

• Monitors:
  
  • Students’ achievement + students home, school, and classroom contexts
  • 4th and 8th grades
  • continues to be administered every 4 years

Question 12

Coding Goal

Answer 12

• Develop a reliable way of analyzing the lessons that would capture both the similarities and differences especially those that might influence students’ mathematics learning
• Focus influenced by
  • Prior research [”top down” / deductive ]
  • suggestions by math educators and cultural insiders [”top down” / deductive ]
  • Observations of the videos, themselves [”bottom up” / inductive ]