The Agency for pre-primary, primary and secondary education announced today (4 December 2024) at 11 o’clock results and recommendations of the international research TIMSS 2023 for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is an international study on trends in knowledge of mathematics and science, which provides data on student achievement in these areas and the factors that influence them.
The students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, in TIMSS research, participate for the third time, unfortunately, not continuously.
The first time in 2007, the students of eighth grade of primary schools participated in the study and the achieved results were below the international average.
The second time in 2019, the students of fourth grade of primary schools participated in the study and the achieved results have shown that 24% of the tested students cannot reach neither the low level of achievement in the field of mathematics and that only 1% of the students or one in a hundred, achieves a result in an advanced reference value in mathematics and science!
The third time in 2023, the study in Bosnia and Herzegovina was conducted on the sample of 3391 students of fourth grades from 120 primary schools.
Similar to the previous studies, this time also the results show that the students from Bosnia and Herzegovina achievements are below the international average.
The students of fourth grades in Bosnia and Herzegovina achieved in mathematics test 447 points and in science 448 points. The achievement in both tests positions Bosnia and Herzegovina below the TIMSS scale average which amounts to 503 for mathematics and 494 for science and the difference compared to average is statistically significant.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina girls make better average achievements in science when compared to boys and the difference in achievements is statistically significant, while on the international level, girls make better average achievements in science when compared to boys, but the difference is not statistically significant.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina boys achieve better average achievements in mathematics, but the difference is not statistically significant, while on the international level, boys make better average achievements in mathematics and the difference is statistically significant.
