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REFERENCES Atkin, J. Myron, and Paul Black 1997 Policy perils of international comparisons: The TIMSS Case. Phi Delta Kappan 79~1~:22-28. Bracey, G.W. 1996 International comparisons and the condition of American education. Edu- cational Researcher 25~1~:5-11. de Lange, Jan 1997 Looking Through the TIMSS Mirror from a Teaching Angle. Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Elmore, R.F. 1997 Education Policy and Practice in the Aftermath of TIMSS. Department of Education, Harvard University. Haertel, E.H. 1997 Exploring and Explaining U.S. TIMSS Performance. Stanford University. Huberman, Michael 1997 Qualities of Instruction and Varieties of Qualitative Research. Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Geneva. International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement 1996a Mathematics Achievement in the Middle School Years: IEA's Third Inter- national Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSSJ. Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College. Available: http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/timss [June 19, 1997]. 1996b Science Achievement in the Middle School Years: IEA's Third Interna- tional Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSSJ. Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College. Available: http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/timss [June 19, 1997]. McKnight, Curtis C., et al. 1987 The Underachieving Curriculum: Assessing U.S. School Mathematics from an International Perspective. University of Illinois at Urbana. Champaign, IL: Stipes Publishing Co. Medrich, Elliott A., and Jeanne E. Griffith 1992 International Mathematics and Science Assessments: What Have We Learned? Research and development report from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, NCES 92-011. U.S. Department of Education, Washing- ton, DC. National Center for Education Statistics 1996 Pursuing Excellence: A Study of U.S. Eighth-Grade Mathematics and Sci- ence Teaching, Learning, Curriculum, and Achievement in International Context. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser- vices. Available: http://www.ed.gov/NCES/timss [July 8, 1997]. Robitaille, David F., and Robert A. Garden, eds. 1996 Research Questions and Study Design. TIMSS Monograph No. 2. Vancouver, Canada: Pacific Educational Press. Rotberg, Iris C. 1990 I never promised you first place. Phi Delta Kappan 72~4~:296-303. Schmidt, William H., Curtis C. McKnight, and Senta A. Raizen 1997 A Splintered Vision: An Investigation of U.S. Science and Mathematics Education. U.S. National Research Center for the Third International Math- ematics and Science Study. Dordrecht, The Netherlands; Boston, MA; London, England: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Schmidt, William H., Curtis C. McKnight, Gilbert A. Valverde, Richard T. Houang, and David E. Wiley 1997 Many Visions, Many Aims: Volume 1: A Cross-National Investigation of Curricular Intentions in School Mathematics. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. RESULTS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE STUDY 31

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Third International Mathematics and Science Study 1996 Third International Mathematics and Science Study: Quality Assurance in Data Collection, M. Martin and I. Mullis, eds. Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College. Available: http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/timss [June 30, 1997]. TIMSS U.S. National Research Center 1996 Report No. 7 December 1996. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Univer- sity. Available: http://ustimss.msu.edu/nwslet/report7.htm [September 2, 19971. Tyack, David, and Larry Cuban 1995 Tinkering Toward Utopia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 32 LEARNING FROM TIMSS:

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