Special Analysis 2009

Introduction

Table 1. Participation in the most recent international assessments, by jurisdiction and grade or age

	PIRLS 2006	PISA 2006	TIMSS 2007¹			PIRLS 2006	PISA 2006	TIMSS 2007²
OECD jurisdiction³	4th	15-year-olds	4th	8th	Non-OECD jurisdiction	4th	15-year-olds	4th	8th
Australia		●	●	●	Algeria			●	●
Austria	●	●	●		Argentina		●
Belgium		●			Armenia			●	●
Flemish	●				Azerbaijan		●
French	●				Bahrain				●
Canada		●			Bosnia and Herzegovina				●
Alberta	●		o		Botswana				●
British Columbia	●		o	o	Brazil		●
Nova Scotia	●				Bulgaria	●	●		●
Ontario	●		o	o	Chile		●
Quebec	●		o	o	Chinese Taipei	●	●	●	●
Czech Republic		●	●	●	Colombia		●	●	●
Denmark	●	●	●		Croatia		●
Finland		●			Cyprus				●
France	●	●			Egypt				●
Germany	●	●	●		El Salvador			●	●
Greece		●			Estonia		●
Hungary	●	●	●	●	Georgia	●		●	●
Iceland	●	●			Ghana				●
Ireland		●			Hong Kong-China	●	●	●	●
Italy	●	●	●	●	Indonesia	●	●		●
Japan		●	●	●	Iran, Islamic Republic of	●		●	●
Korea, Republic of		●		●	Israel	●	●		●
Luxembourg	●	●			Jordan		●		●
Mexico		●			Kazakhstan			●
Netherlands	●	●	●		Kyrgyz Republic		●
New Zealand	●	●	●		Kuwait	●		●	●
Norway	●	●	●	●	Latvia	●	●	●
Poland	●	●			Lebanon				●
Portugal		●			Liechtenstein		●
Slovak Republic	●	●	●		Lithuania	●	●	●	●
Spain	●	●			Macedonia	●
Sweden	●	●	●	●	Macao-China		●
Switzerland		●			Malaysia				●
Turkey		●		●	Malta				●
United Kingdom		●			Moldova, Republic of	●
England	●		●	●	Montenegro, Republic of		●
Scotland	●		●	●	Morocco	●		●
United States⁴	●	●	●	●	Oman				●
OECD country total	19	30	16	12	Palestinian National Authority				●
Total OECD jurisdictions	25	30	16	12	Qatar	●	●	●	●
					Romania	●	●		●
					Russian Federation	●	●	●	●
					Saudi Arabia				●
					Serbia, Republic of		●		●
					Singapore	●		●	●
					Slovenia	●	●	●	●
					South Africa	●
					Syrian Arab Republic				●
					Thailand		●		●
					Trinidad and Tobago	●
					Tunisia		●	●	●
					Ukraine			●	●
					Uruguay		●
					Yemen			●
					Non-OECD country total	20	27	20	36
					Total jurisdictions	45	57	36	48
¹Four Canadian provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec), as well as the Basque region of Spain, Dubai of the United Arab Emirates, and Massachusetts and Minnesota of the United States, participated in TIMSS 2007 as benchmarking participants and are not included in the total counts shown.
²Although Mongolia and Morocco participated at both grades, the quality of the data for Mongolia was not well documented at both grades and there was a problem with the participation rates for Morocco at the eighth grade. For more information, see Olson, J.F., Martin, M.O., & Mullis, I.V.S. (Eds.). (2008).TIMSS 2007 Technical Report. Chestnut Hill, MA: TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, Boston College.
³There are a total of 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). An OECD country is counted in the OECD total if it participated as a single/entire country (which is generally the case) or if it participated as one or more component jurisdictions of the country (e.g., England and Scotland as representing the United Kingdom).
⁴PISA 2006 reading literacy results were not reported for the United States because of an error in printing the test booklets.
NOTE: A bullet "●" indicates participation in the particular assessment. An open bullet "o" indicates jurisdictions that participated as "benchmarking participants."
SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), 2006; IEA, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2007; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2006.

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