Comparisons Between PISA and TIMSS – Are We the Man with Two Watches ?
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“For those doubters who constantly seek to run down (our education performance), we now have the OECD/PISA study – the biggest ever international study of comparative performance of 15-year-olds in 32 countries – which shows UK fourth in science, seventh in literacy and eighth in mathematics. Only Finland and Canada are consistently ahead of the UK – and major countries like Germany, Italy and Spain are well behind”. (Normington, 2002).
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تاریخ انتشار 2006