The science and math assessment focuses on students in their fourth and eighth year of school—in Japan, elementary school fourth-graders and junior high school second years. The country ...

Aaron Parker Elementary’s 4th-grade students recently put their scientific minds to the test during the school’s highly anticipated annual science fair. The event was filled with excitement as ...

In fourth grade science, the top spots were drawn from Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, and England, with Japan coming in sixth place. In terms of gender, it is shown that there are many ...

Score gaps between high- and low-performing fourth-graders widened in mathematics by 35 points and science by 26 points. At eighth grade, low-performing students’ scores declined 19 points in ...

I started the week at P.S. 120 in Brooklyn talking to 60 fourth-graders about my job as a graphic designer for Tech Insider. The other mentors and I then spent the rest of the week guiding the ...

For science, fourth graders had the lowest score since the TIMSS was first administered. U.S. fourth graders had an average science score of 534, compared to Singapore at the highest with an ...