TIMSS Math Item K10
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Question K10 on the 12th Grade TIMSS Math test given to 12th graders around the world in 1995 suggests that American girls and boys were taught the wrong thing in the classroom, as they scored more than 16% lower than if they had just guessed.
THIRD INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE STUDY - 1995 ASSESSMENT May 13, 1998 41 | ||||||||||||
Percent of responses by Math Item Categories - Final Year of Secondary School | ||||||||||||
Item: K10 KEY: C | ||||||||||||
ANGLE INSCRIBED BY FIGURES INSIDE A SEMICIRCLE (Geometry) | ||||||||||||
Difficulty: 741 | ||||||||||||
OTHER | ||||||||||||
INCOR | NOT | 1. GIRL | 2. BOY | |||||||||
COUNTRY | N | A | B | C | D | RECT | DIFF | INVALID | REACHED | OMIT | % Right | % Right |
Australia | 174 | 47.9 | 28.2 | 16.7 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 16.7 | 0 | 0 | 3.9 | 13.4 | 19.2 |
Austria | 202 | 36.8 | 35.4 | 19.2 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 19.2 | 0 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 19.1 | 18.5 |
Canada | 807 | 43.2 | 38.7 | 15.1 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 15.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.6 | 18.5 | 12.3 |
Cyprus | 110 | 27.1 | 43.9 | 19.9 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 19.9 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 23.1 | 18.4 |
Czech Republic | 272 | 25.7 | 36.8 | 33.3 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 33.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 1.9 | 32.9 | 33.8 |
Denmark | 422 | 45.4 | 28.5 | 18.2 | 2.2 | 5.7 | 18.2 | 1.2 | 1 | 3.5 | 15 | 20.2 |
France | 259 | 37.4 | 20.5 | 34.7 | 2.6 | 4.9 | 34.7 | 0.2 | 0 | 4.7 | 32.7 | 36.1 |
Germany | 733 | 41.5 | 26.4 | 23.9 | 2.1 | 6.2 | 23.9 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 22.9 | 25.4 |
Greece | 109 | 28 | 48.9 | 12.5 | 2.1 | 8.4 | 12.5 | 0 | 0.9 | 7.6 | 13.3 | 12.1 |
Hungary | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Iceland | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Israel | 206 | 31.6 | 39.8 | 20.9 | 2.9 | 4.9 | 20.9 | 0 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 22.2 | 21.4 |
Italy | 121 | 36.7 | 28.5 | 19.5 | 3.3 | 11.9 | 19.5 | 0 | 5.3 | 6.6 | 20.4 | 18.9 |
Latvia (LSS) | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Lithuania | 249 | 49.7 | 25.6 | 15.6 | 0.6 | 8.4 | 15.6 | 0 | 0 | 8.4 | 13.2 | 17.9 |
Netherlands | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
New Zealand | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Norway | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Russian Federation | 445 | 32.6 | 35.5 | 21.9 | 2.2 | 7.7 | 21.9 | 0 | 0.5 | 7.3 | 18.1 | 25.9 |
Slovenia | 430 | 43.9 | 25.8 | 22.5 | 0.4 | 7.3 | 22.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 6.8 | 26 | 19.2 |
South Africa | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Sweden | 253 | 41.5 | 23.8 | 25.5 | 7.1 | 2 | 25.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 27.7 |
Switzerland | 360 | 34.9 | 25.9 | 33.7 | 1.1 | 4.4 | 33.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 4.2 | 33.7 | 34.2 |
United States | 759 | 44.7 | 43.6 | 8.6 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 8.6 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 8.5 | 8.7 |
INTERNATIONAL AVG | . | 38.2 | 32.7 | 21.3 | 2.6 | 5.3 | 21.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 20.8 | 21.8 |
US adjusted for guesses | -16.5 | -16.3 |