Credibility of International Science Exams like TIMSS and PISA

Posted September 19th, 2010 in Science Instruction by Jessica

In the past I have discredited international exams with the same reasons (or perhaps what Baybee would call excuses):
-”other countries only test their brightest”

-”other countries do not include special students”

-”other countries do not have second language learners”

-”other countries teach to the test” are ill informed and wrong” (2007).

Here is why I was wrong…

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