Elementary and Secondary Education

Assessments

Table A-15-3. Average scores of U.S. 15-year-old students on combined reading literacy scale, by race and ethnicity: 2009

Race and ethnicity	Combined reading literacy score
U.S. average	500
White	525	*
Black	441	*
Hispanic	466	*
Asian	541	*
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	‡
American Indian/Alaska Native	‡
Two or more races	502
OECD average	493
‡ Reporting standards not met.
*p <05. Significantly different from the U.S. and OECD averages at the05 level of statistical significance.
NOTE: Race categories exclude people of Hispanic ethnicity. For more information on race/ethnicity, please see supplemental note 1. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average is the average of the national averages of the OECD member countries, with each country weighted equally. Scores are reported on a scale of 0 to 1,000. For more information on PISA, see supplemental note 5.
SOURCE: Fleischman, H.L., Hopstock, P.J., Pelczar, M.P., and Shelley, B.E. (2010). Highlights From PISA 2009: Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Reading, Mathematics, and Science Literacy in an International Context (NCES 2011-004), table 5; data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2009.

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