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Since the 1980s, Chinese students, including those from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, have consistently outperformed their Western counterparts in large-scale international studies in mathematics, such as IAEP, TIMSS, and PISA (Fan & Zhu, 2004; OECD, 2010). Students from mainland China once ranked the first in IAEP2 (Fan & Zhu, 2004) and in PISA 2009 (OECD, 2010), and recorded excellent performance in some small-scale comparison studies in mathematics achievement as well (e.g., Lee, 1998; Stevenson et al., 1993).
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Yang, X. (2014). Introduction. In: Conception and Characteristics of Expert Mathematics Teachers in China. Perspektiven der Mathematikdidaktik. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03097-1_1
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