An abysmal showing by U.S. students on a recent international math test flabbergasted typically restrained education researchers.“It looks like student achievement just fell off a cliff,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist at the American Institutes for Research.
The 2023 results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which were released earlier this month, show that the severe declines in student achievement, previously reported on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the 2022 Program of International Student Assessment (PISA), are stubbornly enduring and possibly becoming more severe.
