TIMSS 2011 Schedule
2009
- February 8–13 1st National Research Coordinators (NRC) meeting to discuss updates to the frameworks, possible revisions to questionnaires, and review procedures for sampling (Egypt)
- March 23–25 1st Science and Mathematics Item Review Committee (SMIRC) meeting to review frameworks (England)
- March 31–April 3 1st Questionnaire Item Review Committee (QIRC) meeting to review questionnaires for field test—Joint meeting with PIRLS Questionnaire Development Group (QDG) (Germany)
- May 10–15 2nd National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review questionnaires and develop items for field test (United States)
- August 26–28 2nd SMIRC meeting to review field-test items (The Netherlands)
- September TIMSS 2011 Assessment Frameworks published and posted on web
- September 10 Draft field-test questionnaires distributed for final review by QIRC, PIRLS QDG, and NRCs
- October 1 Field-test questionnaires finalized and distributed to NRCs
- November 8–13 3rd National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review all field-test achievement materials (Turkey)
- December 17 Field-test materials finalized and distributed to NRCs
2010
- March 1–April 15 Conduct Field Test
- March 7–12 4th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to conduct training for scoring constructed-response items for the field test (Australia)
- June 28–303rd SMIRC meeting to review field-test achievement results and make recommendations for the main data collection (Sweden)
- July 14–162nd QIRC meeting to review field-test background questionnaire results and make recommendations for the main data collection—Joint meeting with PIRLS QDG (Croatia)
- August 8–135th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review field test results and finalize instruments (Czech Republic)
- October–December Data Collection Southern Hemisphere
- November 8 –11Conduct training for constructed-response scoring for Southern-Hemisphere schedule (New Zealand)
2011
- March 6–11 6th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to conduct training for constructed-response scoring for Northern-Hemisphere schedule (Thailand)
- March–JuneData Collection Northern Hemisphere
- December 4–97th
National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review countries’ data
and draft International Reports outline and exhibits—Joint meeting
with PIRLS 2011 NRCs (Austria)
2012
- May 28–31 4th SMIRC meeting to conduct scale anchoring of achievement data (Finland)
- June 24-298th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to review draft International Reports—Joint meeting with PIRLS 2011 NRCs (Singapore)
- SeptemberTIMSS 2011 Encyclopedia published and posted on web
- December 11 TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center and IEA conduct international press conference to release International Reports
2013
- January 17 TIMSS 2011 International Database and User Guide published and posted on web
- February 10–159th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting to conduct training in use of TIMSS 2011 International Database