SCIENCE TEACHING AND INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENTS.

ASSESSMENT of education; FOREIGN study; CURRICULUM evaluation; MATHEMATICS education; SCIENCE education; READING; EVALUATION

The article discusses how international assessments of science education can reveal teaching concerns. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) measures reading literacy, mathematic literacy, and science literacy and problem solving in teenage students. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) evaluates the mathematic and science abilities of students in several grades in relation to curricula.