TIMS EVAUATES KNOWLEDGE OF ARMENIAN PUPILS
Panorama.am
17:20 24/12/2008
The International Association for the Evaluation of Education
Achievement published a report on Trends in International Mathematics
and Science Study. Armenia took part in TIMS second time, said the
head of information and public relations department of Ministry of
Education and Science Arthur Baghdasaryan to Panorama.am.
The first research was conducted in 2003, and the second in 2007. TIMS
researches the knowledge of the pupils of 4th and 8th forms and their
skills to use them.
According to Baghdasaryan it became possible to compare our educational
experience with others as 67 countries took part in TIMS. Armenian
experience was assessed positively.