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| Table 412. | Average fourth-grade science scores in content areas and average time spent teaching science in school, by country: 2003 |
| Country or other jurisdiction | Average score by content area | Average yearly science instructional time in hours |
Science instruc- tional time as a percent of total instructional time1 |
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| Science overall | Life science | Physical science | Earth science | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Armenia | 437 | (4.3) | 435 | (4.4) | 429 | (4.3) | 450 | (3.6) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| Australia2 | 521 | (4.2) | 523 | (3.8) | 518 | (3.9) | 518 | (4.1) | 45 | 3 | (2.6) | 5 | (0.3) | |||||
| Belgium (Flemish) | 518 | (1.8) | 524 | (1.7) | 507 | (2.3) | 522 | (1.7) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| Chinese Taipei | 551 | (1.7) | 540 | (1.6) | 554 | (2.0) | 559 | (2.6) | 84 | (1.0) | 11 | (0.2) | ||||||
| Cyprus | 480 | (2.4) | 482 | (2.1) | 479 | (2.3) | 487 | (2.5) | 46 | 3 | (1.4) | 5 | (0.2) | |||||
| England2 | 540 | (3.6) | 532 | (3.1) | 546 | (3.2) | 535 | (3.5) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| Hong Kong, SAR2,4 | 542 | (3.1) | 535 | (2.6) | 548 | (2.7) | 536 | (2.7) | 77 | 3 | (5.4) | 8 | (0.5) | |||||
| Hungary | 530 | (3.0) | 536 | (2.5) | 526 | (2.7) | 526 | (3.7) | 54 | 3 | (1.0) | 6 | (0.1) | |||||
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 414 | (4.1) | 424 | (4.6) | 419 | (4.5) | 428 | (3.0) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| Italy | 516 | (3.8) | 521 | (3.5) | 512 | (3.5) | 519 | (3.7) | 73 | 5 | (2.3) | 8 | 5 | (0.3) | ||||
| Japan | 543 | (1.5) | 530 | (1.3) | 557 | (1.7) | 535 | (1.9) | 81 | (1.2) | 8 | (0.2) | ||||||
| Latvia | 532 | (2.5) | 531 | (2.3) | 532 | (2.6) | 534 | (2.9) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| Lithuania6 | 512 | (2.6) | 516 | (2.0) | 512 | (2.5) | 503 | (3.2) | 53 | (1.6) | 6 | (0.2) | ||||||
| Moldova, Republic of | 496 | (4.6) | 504 | (3.9) | 489 | (3.9) | 505 | (4.9) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| Morocco | 304 | (6.7) | 300 | (6.1) | 308 | (7.0) | 311 | (6.1) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| Netherlands2 | 525 | (2.0) | 547 | (1.8) | 505 | (1.9) | 503 | (2.3) | 33 | 3 | (1.8) | 3 | (0.2) | |||||
| New Zealand | 520 | (2.5) | 520 | (2.3) | 516 | (2.3) | 522 | (2.3) | 65 | 3 | (3.5) | 7 | (0.4) | |||||
| Norway | 466 | (2.6) | 480 | (2.2) | 456 | (2.3) | 473 | (2.8) | 38 | 5 | (1.8) | 4 | 5 | (0.2) | ||||
| Philippines | 332 | (9.4) | 330 | (9.0) | 343 | (9.6) | 324 | (9.2) | 176 | 5 | (3.2) | 16 | 5 | (0.4) | ||||
| Russian Federation | 526 | (5.2) | 526 | (4.7) | 527 | (5.2) | 527 | (6.0) | 33 | 3 | (1.2) | 5 | (0.2) | |||||
| Scotland2 | 502 | (2.9) | 506 | (3.1) | 503 | (2.6) | 498 | (2.6) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| Singapore | 565 | (5.5) | 506 | (3.1) | 503 | (2.6) | 498 | (2.6) | 64 | (0.6) | 7 | (0.1) | ||||||
| Slovenia | 490 | (2.5) | 489 | (2.9) | 497 | (2.3) | 490 | (2.7) | 75 | 5 | (2.2) | 9 | 5 | (0.3) | ||||
| Tunisia | 314 | (5.7) | 290 | (5.9) | 324 | (5.3) | 336 | (4.8) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ||||||
| United States2 | 536 | (2.5) | 537 | (2.2) | 531 | (2.3) | 535 | (2.5) | 83 | 5 | (3.0) | 8 | 5 | (0.3) | ||||
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† Not applicable. ‡ Reporting standards not met. 1 Computed as the ratio of science instructional time to the total instructional time averaged across students. 2 Met guidelines for participation rates only after replacement schools were included. 3 Data are available for at least 50 but less than 70 percent of the students. 4 SAR = Special Administrative Region. 5 Data are available for at least 70 but less than 85 percent of the students. 6 National Desired Population does not cover all of International Desired Population. NOTE: Data are for fourth grade or equivalent in most countries. Possible scores range from 0 to 1,000. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2003, TIMSS 2003 International Science Report, by Michael O. Martin et al. (This table was prepared October 2005.) |
