School Party
Screen 3 – Ticket Sales
Nearly all students tackled the item on Screen 3 assessing fourth grade students’ familiarity with basic fractions.
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Maximum Score Points: 1
Content Domain: Number
Topic Area: Fractions and Decimals
Cognitive Domain: Applying
Results
As shown in Exhibit 7, Singapore and Hong Kong SAR had the highest achievement, with 80–81 percent of their students correctly clicking on 4 of the 12 tickets. On average, nearly half the eTIMSS students answered correctly (48%). One quarter of the students on average answered 3 tickets, possibly indicating a misconception about the fraction 1/3. On average across countries, there was a gender gap in achievement favoring boys.