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Looking up TIMSS in your part of the world

In this article, we ask you to look up the results for TIMSS 2015 Grade 4 for your country or a neighbouring country.
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It can be very useful to look at some real data yourself. It will make you familiar with the international context of Grade 4 mathematics achievement.

You have already looked at the report for TIMSS 2015. Another way to do this to have a look at the actual data with International Data Explorer.

Right-click on this International Data Explorer link to open in a new window.

You can experiment a bit with this explorer. An extensive help file can be found here.

In brief, you can do this as follows:

  1. In the first tab, you select the criteria ‘Mathematics and Science’ and ‘Grade 4’.
  2. In the second tab, you choose the variables you want to look at: the ‘measure’ is ‘TIMSS Mathematics Scales: Overall Mathematics details’, choose your report years, and countries.
  3. You construct reports by choosing what you want in the reports. Choose your own country or a country of your choice for your report. You can build multiple reports.
  4. You then edit the report.
  5. Finally, you build the report.

You can do quite a lot of complex analyses with the explorer. Have a look at the TIMSS 2015 Grade 4 results for your country.

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