| 1995 | 2007 | ||
| Country (ordered by total score) |
Average score | Average score | |
| TIMSS scale average | † | † | |
| Singapore | 4.0 | 3.8 | |
| Hong Kong SAR | 6.1 | 5.8 | |
| Japan | 1.6 | 2.4 | |
| Hungary | 3.2 | 3.5 | |
| England | 3.0 | 4.8 | |
| Russian Federation | 5.3 | 4.1 | |
| United States | 4.7 | 2.8 | |
| Lithuania | 4.1 | 2.3 | |
| Czech Republic | 4.5 | 2.4 | |
| Slovenia | 2.9 | 2.1 | |
| Australia | 3.7 | 3.9 | |
| Sweden | 4.3 | 2.3 | |
| Scotland | 5.7 | 3.7 | |
| Norway | 2.2 | 2.0 | |
| Cyprus | 2.2 | 1.6 | |
| Bulgaria | 5.8 | 5.0 | |
| Romania | 4.6 | 4.1 | |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 3.9 | 4.1 | |
| Colombia | 5.6 | 3.6 | |
| SOURCE: Gonzales, P., Williams, T., Jocelyn, L., Roey, S., Kastberg, D., and Brenwald, S. (2008). Highlights From TIMSS 2007: Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context (NCES 2009-001), table E-2. Data from International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 1995 and 2007. | |||
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