TIMSS Math Item K08
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Question K08 on the 12th Grade TIMSS Math test given to 12th graders around the world in 1995 suggests that American girls were taught the wrong thing in the classroom, as they scored 1% lower than if they had just guessed.
THIRD INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE STUDY - 1995 ASSESSMENT May 13, 1998 39 | ||||||||||||
Percent of responses by Math Item Categories - Final Year of Secondary School | ||||||||||||
Item: K08 KEY: D | ||||||||||||
CONIC REPRESENTED BY AN EQUATION (Geometry) | ||||||||||||
Difficulty: 690 | ||||||||||||
OTHER | ||||||||||||
INCOR | NOT | 1. GIRL | 2. BOY | |||||||||
COUNTRY | N | A | B | C | D | RECT | DIFF | INVALID | REACHED | OMIT | % Right | % Right |
Australia | 174 | 35.6 | 37 | 12.3 | 13.7 | 1.3 | 13.7 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 17 | 11.2 |
Austria | 202 | 30.4 | 22.5 | 12.1 | 30.4 | 4.6 | 30.4 | 0 | 0.3 | 4.2 | 25.7 | 35.8 |
Canada | 807 | 18.8 | 32.3 | 9.7 | 38.8 | 0.5 | 38.8 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 38.8 | 38.7 |
Cyprus | 110 | 25.6 | 16.3 | 6.2 | 51.2 | 0.7 | 51.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 43 | 56.8 |
Czech Republic | 272 | 25.1 | 25.3 | 14.9 | 31.7 | 3 | 31.7 | 0.2 | 0 | 2.7 | 27 | 38.1 |
Denmark | 422 | 41.1 | 27.8 | 8.5 | 14.2 | 8.4 | 14.2 | 0.2 | 1 | 7.2 | 12.1 | 15.3 |
France | 259 | 26.7 | 24.3 | 8 | 34.4 | 6.5 | 34.4 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 39.2 | 31.1 |
Germany | 733 | 31.9 | 22.5 | 19.2 | 14 | 12.4 | 14 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 10.9 | 14.1 | 14.2 |
Greece | 109 | 25.5 | 11 | 2.6 | 60.9 | 0 | 60.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64.6 | 59 |
Hungary | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Iceland | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Israel | 206 | 21.4 | 16.5 | 3.9 | 55.3 | 2.9 | 55.3 | 0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 53.5 | 58.2 |
Italy | 121 | 31.2 | 29 | 8.5 | 29.1 | 2.1 | 29.1 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.4 | 38.8 | 22.2 |
Latvia (LSS) | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Lithuania | 249 | 49.5 | 16 | 14.2 | 10.2 | 10 | 10.2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 13.7 | 7 |
Netherlands | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
New Zealand | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Norway | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Russian Federation | 446 | 30.8 | 37.5 | 10.1 | 15.3 | 6.4 | 15.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 6 | 14.9 | 15.6 |
Slovenia | 430 | 16.7 | 30.7 | 10.3 | 39.2 | 3.1 | 39.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 2.9 | 36.4 | 41.5 |
South Africa | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Sweden | 253 | 10.1 | 33.1 | 33.7 | 18.8 | 4.2 | 18.8 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 17.4 | 19.4 |
Switzerland | 360 | 29.1 | 26.6 | 17.7 | 19.8 | 6.9 | 19.8 | 0 | 0 | 6.9 | 12.5 | 23.1 |
United States | 759 | 24.5 | 23.8 | 25.6 | 25.1 | 1 | 25.1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.7 | 24 | 26 |
INTERNATIONAL AVG | . | 27.9 | 25.4 | 12.8 | 29.5 | 4.4 | 29.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 3.9 | 29 | 30.2 |