Along with Colorado, Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota and North Carolina, California will be among the states to provide data from its eighth grade students in the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which compares performance in math and science with that of students in 60 other countries globally. http://www.aurorasentinel.com/hp_metro/article_ea89cf5c-fe34-11df-853d-001cc4c03286.html For more information about TIMSS, see http://nces.ed.gov/timss/ .
Update on 12/16/10: The Christian Science Monitor's Jonathan Zimmerman opines that China's students may out-perform Americans on standardized tests such as the PISA and TIMSS due to the Chinese belief that hard work can yield higher achievement, rather than only innate intelligence. http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1214/Why-Shanghai-schooled-the-US-Americans-think-they-re-too-smart-to-work-hard
Additional update on 1/5/11: US science test results from PISA are on par with leading industrial nations, although lag behind in math and are on a plateau in English. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/12/07/15pisa.h30.html?tkn=RZQFkOSFiq6a5KNfBjLteFg/2Uw72JEQL/Yb&cmp=clp-edweek
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