| Content domain | Percentile | ||||||||||
| Country (ordered by total score) |
Total science | Life science | Physical science | Earth science | 90th | 10th | |||||
| TIMSS scale average | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | |||||
| Singapore | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 5.0 | 7.0 | |||||
| Chinese Taipei | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 3.0 | |||||
| Hong Kong SAR | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 4.5 | |||||
| Japan | 2.1 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 3.4 | |||||
| Russian Federation | 4.8 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.9 | |||||
| Latvia | 2.3 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 4.5 | |||||
| England | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 4.8 | 3.7 | |||||
| United States | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 4.3 | |||||
| Hungary | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 6.3 | 6.1 | |||||
| Italy | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 6.3 | |||||
| Kazakhstan | 5.6 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 9.2 | |||||
| Germany | 2.4 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | |||||
| Australia | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 3.7 | |||||
| Slovak Republic | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 8.3 | |||||
| Austria | 2.5 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 4.1 | 4.8 | |||||
| Sweden | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 4.0 | |||||
| Netherlands | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 3.6 | |||||
| Slovenia | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 1.7 | |||||
| Denmark | 2.9 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 9.9 | |||||
| Czech Republic | 3.1 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 5.1 | 3.5 | |||||
| Lithuania | 2.4 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 3.3 | |||||
| New Zealand | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 4.7 | |||||
| Scotland | 2.3 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 3.7 | |||||
| Armenia | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 15.2 | 8.6 | |||||
| Norway | 3.5 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 7.7 | |||||
| Ukraine | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 5.1 | |||||
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 5.5 | |||||
| Georgia | 4.6 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 7.3 | |||||
| Colombia | 5.4 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 4.9 | 7.9 | |||||
| El Salvador | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 6.2 | |||||
| Algeria | 6.0 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 6.8 | 10.0 | |||||
| Kuwait | 4.4 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 5.9 | 8.0 | |||||
| Tunisia | 5.9 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 5.8 | 4.6 | 14.0 | |||||
| Morocco | 5.9 | 6.8 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 9.4 | 7.5 | |||||
| Qatar | 2.6 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 3.8 | |||||
| Yemen | 7.2 | † | † | † | 8.6 | 8.3 | |||||
| † Not applicable. | |||||||||||
| 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), tables E-20, E-22, and E-25, 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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