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The International Society for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, headquartered in the Netherlands, has released the “International Mathematics and Science Education Trends Survey (TIMSS) 2023,” which investigated the academic ability of children in the same grade in a total of 64 countries. It has become clear which countries’ children achieved high scores.
International Results – TIMSS 2023
https://timss2023.org/results/
TIMSS2023 results (overview)
(PDF file)https://www.nier.go.jp/timss/2023/gaiyou.pdf
The survey targeted 4th graders (4th grade of elementary school in Japan) and 8th graders (2nd year of junior high school in Japan), with 359,098 4th graders from 12,016 schools in 59 countries and 8,786 students from 8,786 schools in 44 countries for 8th graders. Data from 297,262 peopletotallingIt was done. In Japan, data were randomly selected from 3,875 fourth-year elementary school students from 141 schools and 3,905 second-year junior high school students from 133 schools.
The following is a score of the mathematics performance of 4th grade elementary school students by country. From the top left to the bottom right, the countries are listed in order of their performance. First place was Singapore with 615 points, second place was Taiwan with 607 points, and third place was South Korea with 594 points. Japan was in 5th place with 591 points. This score was calculated based on the 1995 survey’s average score of 500 points.
By gender, there is a difference in performance in the majority of countries, with 40 countries having a higher average score for boys, 17 countries having no difference, and 1 country having a higher average score for girls. did.
For second-year junior high school students, the top three rankings of Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea remained unchanged, and Japan moved into fourth place.
In terms of gender, boys had an advantage in almost half of the countries.
According to a document summarizing TIMSS 2023 by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/National Institute for Educational Policy Research, “Japan’s average score in arithmetic and mathematics continues to be at the top level in the world. There is no significant change in the average scores for both elementary and junior high school students.The average percentage of correct answers for the same questions is about the same as in the previous survey.
The following questions were raised in the survey:
According to the TIMSS 2023 materials, the following questions were asked in English-speaking countries.
Scores are categorized in 75-point increments, and for 4th grade math, “625 points: Can connect concepts and expressions in a wide range of contexts” and “550 points: Demonstrate mathematical knowledge in simple situations and connect expressions.” can ” and “475 points: I have a basic understanding of mathematics.” In Japan, there are more children who score high than the international median, and the number of such children is increasing slightly every year. It has been.
In 4th grade science, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, and England ranked first, with Japan in sixth place.
Regarding gender, it has been shown that there are many countries where there is no difference between men and women.
In the second year of junior high school, Japan came in third place. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology stated, “Japan’s average science scores continue to be among the highest in the world.Compared to the previous survey, the average scores for both elementary and junior high schools in Japan have significantly decreased.The average correct answers for the same questions as the previous survey. The rates are about the same.”
Even in the second year of junior high school, the results showed that there was no difference between men and women, or that one gender was almost equally likely to have an advantage.
Additionally, in Japan, results show that men’s average scores are slightly higher in both arithmetic, mathematics, and science. On the other hand, in the National Academic Achievement and Learning Status Survey led by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a summary of the results for 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2022 states that “Girls answered more correctly on average than boys in both arithmetic, mathematics, and science. Although the rate is high, there is no real difference in the average values for men and women.”
Regarding the evaluation in 75-point increments, there has been a decrease in the number of high scorers compared to the previous survey.
In addition, in the science section of TIMSS 2023, 88 newly created questions were asked in elementary schools and 109 questions in junior high schools (both 50% of the total). According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, these new issues include issues related to tropical and arid ecosystems that are unfamiliar to Japanese students, as well as issues that do not match the learning period of Japanese children. It seems that there is. In fact, data from this survey showed that the newer the questions, the more often the correct answer rate was lower than the international average, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said, “When analyzing science results, it is important to keep this in mind.” There is a need,” he wrote.
Data linking economic status and performance show that higher socio-economic status is associated with better performance.
The same was true for school finances, with children in schools with more money performing better than children in poorer schools.
Additionally, children in schools that placed a high emphasis on academic success had higher average grades than those in schools that placed an average or moderate emphasis on academic success.
According to a survey on interest in arithmetic, mathematics, and science, from 2003 to 2023, the percentage of Japanese (second year junior high school students) who answered that studying mathematics/science will be useful in daily life increased. is shown to be increasing.
The percentage of people who answered that “studying arithmetic and mathematics is fun” has been on the rise in second year middle school, but is still below the international average.
In science, the percentage of fourth-grade students who say “studying is fun” has consistently exceeded the international average since 2007.
Regarding science, the TIMSS 2023 materials state that “occasionally conducting experiments in class is more helpful in improving the average science performance of fourth graders than conducting experiments frequently or not at all.” ‘ results are shown.
In this regard, it has been shown that the frequency of experiments performed by Japanese children is at a fairly high level internationally.
Additionally, boys are said to be more interested in science and mathematics subjects than girls.
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