Education Olympics

Thanks to Mark Lee for sharing this with me.

This is about Education Olympics . Quoting the description about this competition.

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Over the last few decades, the United States has trailed other developed (and some developing) nations on international measures that assess student performance in reading, mathematics, and science. The purpose of the Education Olympics is to contrast America’s tepid academic performance with its athletic dominance. While America’s athletes bring home a trove of medals from Beijing, its student competitors are expected to be relatively barren of jewelry. We want to ask: What will the United States do to turn around this critical situation?

The data on which the events in the Education Olympics are based come from four main international measures, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and the Civic Education Study (CIVED). There are 58 events, each based on test scores from a section of one of the above exams, except for a handful of events that reflect measures of educational attainment.
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The ranking of each country is at here .

Finland was number 1 with 35 medals, Hong Kong playing 2nd fiddle with 33 medals, Singapore 3rd with 16 medals, Japan and Korea joint 4th with 15 medals, Chinese Taipei 6th with 12 medals, New Zealand 7th with 11 medals.

How about Malaysia? Unfortunately, we failed to get any medal. This is definitely a serious wakeup call that we should strive to work hard to ensure that our level of Mathematics are on par with the rest of the world. In fact, this time around, Malaysia only sends a team for Maths, and I hope in the future, we would be able to have a team in various categories/subjects.

Lets look more in depth at Malaysia's performance, since we only participated in several events only. Malaysia's overall results is here .

We took part in 8 events under the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

Highest 8th Grade Scores on TIMSS (Combined) - 11th out of 25 countries
Highest 8th Grade Scores on TIMSS (Male) - 13th out of 25 countries
Highest 8th Grade Scores on TIMSS (Female) - 9th out of 25 countries
Highest 8th Grade Scores on TIMSS (Combined - algebra) - 17th out of 25 countries Highest 8th Grade Scores on TIMSS (Combined - number) - 8th out of 25 countries
Highest 8th Grade Scores on TIMSS (Combined - measurement) - 15th out of 25 countries
Highest 8th Grade Scores on TIMSS (Combined - geometry) - 13th out of 25 countries
Highest 8th Grade Scores on TIMSS (Combined - data) - 16th out of 25 countries





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