TERCE 2013 Fact Sheet
- Long title
- Frequency of data collection
- Previous cycles
- Schedule
- Objectives
- Research questions
- Assessment domain(s)
- Study framework (summary)
- Participating entities
- Target population and sample (summary)
- Data collection techniques and instruments (summary)
- Initiator
- Study director(s)
- Study website(s)
- Contact
- Sources
- 2010: general design, work plan
- 2011: curriculum analysis, item development
- 2012: framework development for associated factors, questionnaire development, sampling design, software development; field test
- 2013: data collection
- 2014: analysis; publication of final reports
- 2015: release of results
- Contribute to an informed public debate on inclusive quality education and in support of the right to education.
- Identify learning achievements and the factors associated with learning.
- Input this information into the decision making, design, and development of educational policies and practices.
- Assist in building evaluation capacities at the national level for each participating country.
- What is the general level of academic performance of students in elementary school in the subject areas of reading, writing, mathematics, and natural sciences in the participating countries?
- What is the relationship between academic performance and other variables (associated factors), linked to students and their families, to teachers and classrooms, and to schools and their management?
- Reading
- Mathematics
- Natural sciences
- Writing
Reading
- Content domains
- Reading comprehension
- Metalinguistic and theoretical aspects
- Cognitive domains
- Literal comprehension
- Inferential comprehension
- Critical understanding
Mathematics
- Content domains
- Numeracy
- Geometry
- Measurement
- Statistics
- Variation Cognitive Domains
- Recognition of objects and elements
- Solving simple problems
- Solving complex problems
Natural Sciences
- Content Domains
- Health
- Living beings
- Environment
- Earth and the solar system
- Matter and energy
- Cognitive Domains
- Recognition of information and concepts
- Comprehension and application of such concepts
- Scientific thinking and problem-solving
Writing
- Content Domains
- Discursive proficiency
- Textual proficiency
- Conventions of legibility
- Contextual framework
- Context
- Supplies
- Processes
Associated factors - contextual questionnaires
- Students
- Families
- Teachers
- Principals
Number
A total of 15 countries and the Mexican state of Nuevo León
List
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay, and the Mexican state of Nuevo León
Target population
Students in the third and sixth grades in the participating entities.
Sample
- More than 67,000 students in each grade (third and sixth)
- More than 3,200 third-grade classrooms
- More than 3,600 sixth-grade classrooms
Instruments administered to students
- Cognitive test for students
- Questionnaire for students
Instruments administered to teachers and schools
- Questionnaire for teachers
- Questionnaire for principals
Instrument administered to parents
Questionnaire for parents
Regionaol Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
(OREALC/UNESCO Santiago)
Enrique Delpiano 2058, Providencia, Santiago de Chile.
CP 7511019
Tel: (56-2) 2472 46 00
Fax: (56-2) 2655 10 46