{"id":259,"date":"2016-05-12T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2017-01-30T23:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T23:23:52","slug":"characteristics-of-advanced-mathematics-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/timss-advanced-2015\/mathematics\/student-achievement\/characteristics-of-advanced-mathematics-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural Characteristics of the Advanced Mathematics Programs (Tracks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"carouselwrap\"><div id=\"menu-student-achievement-advanced-mathematics\" class=\"carouselmenu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-home\"><span>Student Achievement Overview<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/timss-advanced-2015\/mathematics\/student-achievement\/characteristics-of-advanced-mathematics-programs\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Characteristics of Advanced Mathematics Programs<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/timss-advanced-2015\/mathematics\/student-achievement\/distribution-of-advanced-mathematics-achievement\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Distribution of Advanced Mathematics Achievement<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/timss-advanced-2015\/mathematics\/student-achievement\/multiple-comparisons-of-advanced-mathematics-achievement\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Multiple Comparisons of Advanced Mathematics Achievement<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/timss-advanced-2015\/mathematics\/student-achievement\/differences-in-advanced-mathematics-achievement-across-assessment-years\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Differences in Advanced Mathematics Achievement Across Assessment Years<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/timss-advanced-2015\/mathematics\/student-achievement\/achievement-of-2015-advanced-mathematics-cohort-at-the-eighth-and-fourth-grades\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Achievement of 2015 Advanced Mathematics Cohort at Eighth and Fourth Grades<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/timss-advanced-2015\/mathematics\/student-achievement\/advanced-mathematics-participation-and-achievement-by-gender\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Advanced Mathematics Participation and Achievement by Gender<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/timss-advanced-2015\/mathematics\/student-achievement\/differences-in-advanced-mathematics-achievement-by-gender-across-assessment-years\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Differences in Advanced Mathematics Achievement by Gender Across Assessment Years<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div><\/div>\t<style>\n\t\t.carouselwrap{\n\t\t\tbackground: #e5eaef;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a{\n\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #1FA67A solid;\n\t\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a:hover,\n\t\t.owl-item a:focus,\n\t\t.owl-item a.current-menu-item{\n\t\t\tbackground: #006544;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #1FA67A solid;\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tcolor: #ffffff;\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t\n<h2>Structural Characteristics of the Advanced Mathematics Programs (Tracks)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"su-expand su-expand-collapsed su-expand-link-style-underlined\" data-height=\"90\"><div class=\"su-expand-content\" style=\"color:#000000;max-height:90px;overflow:hidden\">Nine countries participated in TIMSS Advanced 2015, including France, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United States. In advanced mathematics, the Russian Federation participated with two populations of students\u2014Profile students and a select subset of those mathematics students who were in an even more intensive program. The intensive program students have at least six hours of mathematics lessons per week.<\/p>\n<p>The students assessed in TIMSS Advanced 2015 represent carefully defined populations of students taking courses in advanced mathematics in their final year of secondary school. For the most part, they have taken courses covering high level mathematics content (i.e., advanced algebra, calculus, and geometry\/trigonometry) as an integral part of pre-university coursework and are in particular mathematics programs or tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Countries\u2019 advanced mathematics programs or tracks varied considerably in duration and intensity. The duration of the programs ranged from two years in France, Norway, and the Russian Federation to six years in Lebanon. The greatest number of hours of mathematics instruction in the final year of secondary school was reported for students in the Russian Federation\u2019s intensive program (six hours plus lessons weekly), totaling 210 hours, and Lebanon\u2019s select Grade 12 program, with 250 hours. <\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-more\" style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#1FA67A;border-color:#1FA67A\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><span style=\"border-color:#1FA67A\">Show more<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-less\" style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#1FA67A;border-color:#1FA67A\"><i class=\"fa fa-minus\"><\/i><span style=\"border-color:#1FA67A\">Show less<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIMSS Advanced 2015 International Results in Advanced Mathematics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-math.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/2907"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}