TIMSS 2011 Schedule

2009

  • February 8–13 1st National Research Coordinators (NRC) meeting to discuss updates to the frameworks, possible revisions to questionnaires, and review procedures for sampling (Egypt)
  • March 23–25 1st Science and Mathematics Item Review Committee (SMIRC) meeting to review frameworks (England)
  • March 31–April 3 1st Questionnaire Item Review Committee (QIRC) meeting to review questionnaires for field test—Joint meeting with PIRLS Questionnaire Development Group (QDG) (Germany)
  • May 10–15 2nd National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review questionnaires and develop items for field test (United States)
  • August 26–28 2nd SMIRC meeting to review field-test items (The Netherlands)
  • September TIMSS 2011 Assessment Frameworks published and posted on web
  • September 10 Draft field-test questionnaires distributed for final review by QIRC, PIRLS QDG, and NRCs
  • October 1 Field-test questionnaires finalized and distributed to NRCs
  • November 8–13 3rd National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review all field-test achievement materials (Turkey)
  • December 17 Field-test materials finalized and distributed to NRCs

2010

  • March 1–April 15 Conduct Field Test
  • March 7–12 4th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to conduct training for scoring constructed-response items for the field test (Australia)
  • June 28–303rd SMIRC meeting to review field-test achievement results and make recommendations for the main data collection (Sweden)
  • July 14–162nd QIRC meeting to review field-test background questionnaire results and make recommendations for the main data collection—Joint meeting with PIRLS QDG (Croatia)
  • August 8–135th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review field test results and finalize instruments (Czech Republic)
  • October–December Data Collection Southern Hemisphere
  • November 8 –11Conduct training for constructed-response scoring for Southern-Hemisphere schedule (New Zealand)

2011

  • March 6–11 6th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to conduct training for constructed-response scoring for Northern-Hemisphere schedule (Thailand)
  • March–JuneData Collection Northern Hemisphere
  • December 4–97th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review countries’ data and draft International Reports outline and exhibits—Joint meeting with PIRLS 2011 NRCs (Austria)

2012

  • May 28–31 4th SMIRC meeting to conduct scale anchoring of achievement data (Finland)
  • June 24-298th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review draft International Reports—Joint meeting with PIRLS 2011 NRCs (Singapore)
  • SeptemberTIMSS 2011 Encyclopedia published and posted on web
  • December 11 TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center and IEA conduct international press conference to release International Reports

2013

  • January 17 TIMSS 2011 International Database and User Guide published and posted on web
  • February 10–159th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to conduct training in use of TIMSS 2011 International Database