- Event: Release of TIMSS study
- Date: Wednesday, June 11, 1997
- Time: 10:30 a.m.
- Place: Government Media Centre, Main Floor, Confederation
Building, St. John’s, Nfld.
Results from the world’s largest test of mathematics and science
skills will be released June 11 at a news conference in St. John’s,
Nfld.
Canadian Grade 4 students were among those from 26 nations tested
for mathematics and science skills in the second phase the Third
International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
The results of phase one, which tested Grade 8 students, received
international media attention when they were released last November.
TIMSS is based at the University of British Columbia. Test results
will be released in St. John’s in conjunction with the Learned Societies
conference.
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