What is TIMSS?
TIMSS explores how well Year 4 and Year 8 students have mastered the factual and procedural knowledge taught in school mathematics and science classes.
TIMSS 2019 participants
64
Countries
Countries
580 000
Students worldwide
Students worldwide
14 950
Australian students
Australian students
571
Australian schools
Australian schools
Australian achievement trends
Australian mean score
International comparisons
Students achieving national proficient standard
(TIMSS Intermediate international benchmark)
* Singapore was the highest achieving country in mathematics and science at both Year 4 and Year 8
Source: TIMSS 2019: Volume 1: Student performance, by Sue Thomson, Nicole Wernert, Sima Rodrigues and Elizabeth O'Grady (ACER 2020). Available from www.acer.edu.au/timss
TIMSS 2019 infographic by the Australian Council for Educational Research is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.