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WWW. Education Research

As schools and other education organizations "get wired" and researchers put their findings on the Web, the Internet may help close the gap between education research and practice. Many of our readers have expressed an interest in getting education research on the Internet. Information on how to access the U.S. Department of Education, the two R&D Centers funded by this Institute, and a variety of TIMSS Web sites follows. Enjoy surfing!

U.S. Department of Education (ED) has a home page (http://www.ed.gov). It offers a wide variety of information about federal education programs, priorities, and events. To get information specifically about research, statistics, and assessment, go to the blue sidebar on the left and click on "Research and Statistics." Scroll down the page and you will see the National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking, and Management listed under "Research Institutes" (along with the four other Institutes). By clicking on our name, you can get information about us or you can link to the home pages of the two national R&D Centers we fund which are described below.

Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), a grantee of this Institute, recently expanded its Web site which features policy research. Highlights include: center mission and participating universities, detailed information about current CPRE research projects, publications information, case studies, and a "paper of the month." CPRE Policy and Finance Briefs can be downloaded. You can access the Web site directly at http://www.cpre.org/index_js.htm or contact Robb Sewell at (215) 573-0700, ext. 225 for further details.

Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP) recently received a grant from this Institute to investigate the relationship between excellent teaching and policymaking. The Center's research is still in the beginning stages, but information about findings will be added as it becomes available. Information about the Center's mission and research plans is on their Web site. The address is http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail or for further information contact Michele Ferguson at (206) 221-4114.

Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) information can be obtained through the main ED Web site described above or use http://nces.ed.gov/timss for direct access. Here you can download the major TIMSS 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade studies. For additional information, call the TIMSS Customer Service Line at (202) 219-1333.

Several nongovernment Web sites also offer information about TIMSS.

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement has information about TIMSS as well as other international studies on such topics as technology and reading (http://www.iea.nl/).

Boston College provides links to a variety of other TIMSS Web sites in the United States and other nations (http://www.csteep.bc.edu/Timss1/TIMSSSites.html) and also has details about the TIMSS database, including data files, questionnaires, and database user guides (http://www.csteep.bc.edu/timss1/database.html).

Michigan State University has information about the TIMSS curriculum study (http://ustimss.msu.edu/).

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is the source for the TIMSS Resource Kit which can be downloaded for free. In addition to TIMSS information, this site includes other tools useful for benchmarking as well as national and state standards documents (http://www.enc.org/topics/timss/).

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