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TIMSS Germany

TIMSSGermany

Team

To conduct a large-scale assessment such as TIMSS, a great many experts have to work together to guarantee its smooth running and ensure it provides the best-possible basis for research. Some of those people are presented here.

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The University of Hamburg team

The TIMSS 2027 team in Germany is led by Professor Mirjam Steffensky and Professor Knut Schwippert of the University of Hamburg. The team is also supported by IEA Hamburg, which coordinates the field test and main survey and processes the data. Germany’s participation in TIMSS is jointly funded by the federal and regional ministries of education.

Board of experts

A broad-based board of experts oversees the work of conducting the study and reporting on it. The board comprises established researchers from the fields of education studies, mathematics education, science education in elementary schools and comparative international studies of educational achievement.

National and international partners

We work closely with international partners such as the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center (ISC) at Boston College and the IEA. The international coordination of TIMSS is managed by the ISC on behalf of the IEA. The ISC is responsible for the international design and implementation of the study, for coordinating the development of the survey instruments and the data collection process, for the quality of the data collection process and for providing the international database for participating countries.

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