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Impact of SES on Estonian Students’ Science Achievement Across Different Cognitive Domains

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  1. Chief Inspector of the Monitoring Department, Ministry of Education and Research, Munga 18, 50088, Tartu Estonia, USA

    Kristi Mere

  2. Faculty of Educational Sciences, Tallinn Pedagogical University, Viru Sqaure 2, 10111, Tallinn, Estonia

    Priit Reiska

  3. Department of Leadership, Policy, & Organizations, # 514 Peabody College, 230 Appleton Place, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203-5701, USA

    Thomas M. Smith

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Kristi Mere (Estonia)

Chief inspector of general education at the Monitoring department of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research. She has been involved in testing since 1994 when a new centralized school-leaving examinations system was started in Estonia and some people were sent to study testing in Lancaster University, UK. National Project Manager for TIMSS 2003, the first international study that the Estonian students (eighth graders) participated. Her research interest is the quality of teaching and learning. E-mail: Kristi.Mere@hm.ee

Priit Reiska (Estonia)

Senior Researcher and Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Tallinn University. He has been a member of the Estonian national council of physics education since 2001. His research interests include relevance of science education, interdisciplinary science education, concept mapping and computer simulations in science education. His dissertation (1999, at Kiel University in Germany) was on comparing different teaching methods. In his postdoctoral studies (habilitation) at the Kiel University (2002) he conducted research on the influence of experiments and computer simulations on students’ knowledge. Currently he is the Fulbright Fellow at University of West Florida, USA. E-mail: priit.reiska@tlu.ee

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Mere, K., Reiska, P. & Smith, T.M. Impact of SES on Estonian Students’ Science Achievement Across Different Cognitive Domains. Prospects 36, 497–516 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-006-9007-5

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