The quality of Year 8 science teaching in Australia is strongly endorsed by the findings of this study by Jan Lokan, Hilary Hollingsworth and Mark Hackling. The Third International Mathematics and Science Study 1999 Video Study (TIMSS) investigated and described Year 8 Science teaching in Australia, Japan, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, all of...

This report provides an Australian-focused analysis and discussion of the results from the international study, Teaching Mathematics in Seven Countries: Results from the TIMSS 1999 Video Study, which was released earlier this year. The examination of videotapes of 87 randomly selected Year 8 mathematics classes from around Australia indicates, among other findings, that Australian mathematics...