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Table S-15-1. Standard errors for the average mathematics and content domain scale scores of 4th-grade students, by country: 2007
| Country |
Total mathematics |
|
Content domain |
| |
Number |
|
Geometric shapes and measures |
|
Data display |
| TIMSS scale average |
† |
|
† |
|
† |
|
† |
| Hong Kong SAR |
3.6 |
|
3.8 |
|
3.1 |
|
2.7 |
| Singapore |
3.7 |
|
4.3 |
|
3.7 |
|
3.2 |
| Chinese Taipei |
1.7 |
|
1.9 |
|
2.2 |
|
2.0 |
| Japan |
2.1 |
|
2.2 |
|
2.2 |
|
2.8 |
| Kazakhstan |
7.1 |
|
6.6 |
|
7.4 |
|
5.8 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Russian Federation |
4.9 |
|
4.4 |
|
5.1 |
|
4.9 |
| England |
2.9 |
|
3.2 |
|
2.7 |
|
2.5 |
| Latvia |
2.3 |
|
2.1 |
|
2.6 |
|
3.0 |
| Netherlands |
2.1 |
|
2.2 |
|
2.3 |
|
2.3 |
| Lithuania |
2.4 |
|
2.3 |
|
2.4 |
|
2.9 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| United States |
2.4 |
|
2.7 |
|
2.5 |
|
2.4 |
| Germany |
2.3 |
|
2.2 |
|
2.0 |
|
3.1 |
| Denmark |
2.4 |
|
2.9 |
|
2.6 |
|
3.4 |
| Australia |
3.5 |
|
3.7 |
|
3.1 |
|
3.1 |
| Hungary |
3.5 |
|
3.7 |
|
3.3 |
|
3.5 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Italy |
3.1 |
|
3.2 |
|
3.0 |
|
3.4 |
| Austria |
2.0 |
|
2.2 |
|
2.4 |
|
2.6 |
| Sweden |
2.5 |
|
2.5 |
|
2.3 |
|
2.7 |
| Slovenia |
1.8 |
|
1.9 |
|
1.8 |
|
2.5 |
| Armenia |
4.3 |
|
4.0 |
|
4.7 |
|
4.3 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Slovak Republic |
4.5 |
|
3.9 |
|
4.3 |
|
4.2 |
| Scotland |
2.2 |
|
2.6 |
|
2.6 |
|
2.2 |
| New Zealand |
2.3 |
|
2.7 |
|
2.3 |
|
2.6 |
| Czech Republic |
2.8 |
|
2.8 |
|
2.8 |
|
3.3 |
| Norway |
2.5 |
|
2.8 |
|
3.0 |
|
2.6 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ukraine |
2.9 |
|
2.9 |
|
2.8 |
|
3.2 |
| Georgia |
4.2 |
|
3.8 |
|
4.8 |
|
4.6 |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of |
4.1 |
|
3.6 |
|
3.3 |
|
4.0 |
| Algeria |
5.2 |
|
5.0 |
|
4.5 |
|
5.2 |
| Colombia |
5.0 |
|
4.3 |
|
4.8 |
|
5.9 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Morocco |
4.7 |
|
4.7 |
|
4.3 |
|
6.1 |
| El Salvador |
4.1 |
|
3.9 |
|
4.3 |
|
3.5 |
| Tunisia |
4.5 |
|
4.5 |
|
4.5 |
|
4.8 |
| Kuwait |
3.6 |
|
3.5 |
|
3.6 |
|
4.7 |
| Qatar |
1.0 |
|
1.2 |
|
1.4 |
|
1.6 |
| Yemen |
6.0 |
|
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† |
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† |
| † Not applicable. |
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| SOURCE: Gonzales, P., Williams, T., Jocelyn, L., Roey, S., Kastberg, D., and Brenwald, S. (2009). Highlights From TIMSS 2007: Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context (NCES 2009-001 Revised), tables E-1 and E-3, data from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2007. |
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