Bosnia and Herzegovina has already participated in the TIMSS study in 2007, not achieving high results. In the 2007 study, 4,300 pupils from 150 schools took the test while 150 school directors and 724 teachers were evaluated indirectly. According to the results, Bosnia and Herzegovina took the 27th place out of 50 countries, and the average score was lower than the international average.
It will be interesting to track and compare the results that our students will accomplish in the second cycle of research that will be conducted in 2019. The TIMSS 2019 research in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be carried out by the BiH Agency for Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Education in cooperation with the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), cantonal and entity ministries of education, and the Education Department of the Brčko District of BiH.
Unlike PISA, which is not focused on school curricula and knowledge reproduction, TIMSS indirectly monitors teaching methods, its quality, as well as the ways of additional professional development of teachers. A comprehensive analysis of the data resulting from this assessment should serve as a basis and incentive to improving the complete education systems, as well as to improving the working methodology and curriculum, as the disadvantages in these processes directly affect the results of the research.
TIMSS 2019
