Lebanon

Use and Impact of TIMSS

In Lebanon, the ECRD has been administering TIMSS since 2002, in Grades 8 and 12. The ECRD is a government institution affiliated with the Ministry of Education. Considered the educational brain of the Ministry, the main role of the ECRD is to develop national curricula for all disciplines.

The ECRD has been studying TIMSS results carefully and wrote a national report on results for TIMSS 2011. Since 2014, the ECRD has been organizing commissions for reviewing the national curricula on a large scale beginning with the lower grades. The ECRD will make changes to the mathematics and sciences curricula based on TIMSS results when the review reaches Grades 8 and 12.