{"id":242,"date":"2016-04-26T19:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2016-11-29T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T01:33:10","slug":"achievement-in-science-content-domains","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains\/achievement-in-science-content-domains\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievement in Science Content Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"carouselwrap\"><div id=\"menu-achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains-science\" class=\"carouselmenu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Achievement in Content and Cognitive Domains Overview<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains\/achievement-in-science-content-domains\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Achievement in Science Content Domains<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains\/achievement-in-science-cognitive-domains\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Achievement in Science Cognitive Domains<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains\/trends-in-achievement-for-content-domains\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Trends in Achievement for Content Domains<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains\/trends-in-achievement-for-cognitive-domains\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Trends in Achievement for Cognitive Domains<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains\/achievement-in-science-content-domains-by-gender\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Achievement in Content Domains by Gender<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/achievement-in-content-and-cognitive-domains\/achievement-in-science-cognitive-domains-by-gender\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Achievement in Cognitive Domains by Gender<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div><\/div>\t<style>\n\t\t.carouselwrap{\n\t\t\tbackground: #e5eaef;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a{\n\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #00b2cc solid;\n\t\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a:hover,\n\t\t.owl-item a:focus,\n\t\t.owl-item a.current-menu-item{\n\t\t\tbackground: #00667f;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #00b2cc solid;\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tcolor: #ffffff;\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t\n<h2>Achievement in Science Content Domains<\/h2>\n<div class=\"su-expand su-expand-collapsed su-expand-link-style-underlined\" data-height=\"90\"><div class=\"su-expand-content\" style=\"color:#000000;max-height:90px;overflow:hidden\">Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2 present achievement results for the TIMSS science content domains\u2014life science, physical science, and Earth science at fourth grade, and biology, chemistry, physics, and Earth science at eighth grade. To examine relative performance in the content domains, TIMSS used IRT scaling to place achievement in each of the content domains on the TIMSS science achievement scales for fourth grade and eighth grade, respectively. The average scale score for each content domain is shown, together with the difference between science achievement overall and achievement in the content domain. Up and down arrows are used to indicate whether a country\u2019s average content domain score is significantly higher or lower than its overall science average score.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, the highest performing countries overall had the highest achievement in the content domains, and lower performing countries had lower achievement in the content domains. However, each country demonstrated one or two relative strengths and one or two relative weaknesses in comparison to its overall achievement.<\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-more\" style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#00A3C1;border-color:#00A3C1\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><span style=\"border-color:#00A3C1\">Show more<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-less\" style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#00A3C1;border-color:#00A3C1\"><i class=\"fa fa-minus\"><\/i><span style=\"border-color:#00A3C1\">Show less<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIMSS 2015 International Results in Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":240,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-science.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/3935"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}