TIMSS ITEM DIAGNOSTIC REPORT: SOUTH AFRICA GRADE 9 SCIENCE
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TIMSS Item Diagnostic Reports
Published in 2016 by The Department of Basic Education
Cycles: TIMSS 2015
This document, and its two companion reports (resource sets) for mathematics (at Grade 5 and 9 level), is ground-breaking with regard to utilizing in a truly diagnostic way for the first time the results from the data collected during the four-yearly TIMSS administration also in South Africa. On permission from the IEA to use and report on the limited-use released items from TIMSS 2015, we could do and report on detailed item analysis. The results and data from this process were presented during three parallel working meetings with curriculum and assessment specialists from the DBE, nationally and provincially, and the current version of this report reflects the outcome