About holding an online webinar to prepare the international study TIMSS-2023, ICILS-2023

On March 14, 2023, East Kazakhstan Regional Center for New Technologies in Education (hereinafter referred to as the Centre), in order to qualitatively prepare school students from selected educational organizations for the international studies TIMSS-2023 and ICILS-2023, took part in a Roundtable on the topic: “Peculiarities to prepare learners for TIMSS and ICILS” for teachers of secondary schools of the region, organized by the branch of Orleu JSC of Institute for Professional Development of East Kazakhstan region of Ust-Kamenogorsk city (hereinafter referred to as the Branch).

During the Roundtable, director of the Branch G.S. Zhumanova and director of the Centre S.N. Kovalenko outlined the advantages of conducting international studies TIMSS-2023 and ICILS-2023 and familiarized the participants with the action plan for organizing targeted methodological assistance at the workplace for teachers to prepare learners for research.  

Furthermore, the speakers A.K. Orazbayeva, G.K. Kurmangaliyeva demonstrated the features of cognitive activities of 4th and 8th graders in mathematics and science, as well as factors affecting the education quality.   

The discussion platform of the roundtable discussed diverse tasks with an online audience about the problems and causes that affect the results of educational achievements of Kazakhstan schoolchildren in international studies TIMSS and ICILS, and ways to solve them.

Following the roundtable, director of the Branch G.S. Zhumanova summarized the roundtable, defining the directions of targeted work with teachers to prepare school students for international studies.