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Tinkering with TIMSS

author: Gerald W. Bracey
description: Despite Commissioner Forgione's attempt to put the best face on it, the final-year TIMSS study does not permit a comparison of achievement across nations, Mr. Bracey avers. When people make such comparisons, they are engaging in a political exercise, not an intellectual one.

URL link: http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kbra9809.htm
published in: Phi Delta Kappan
published: September 1998
posted to site: 10/15/1998