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Table 11. |
Average scores among 15-year-olds on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) mathematics literacy assessment, by participating country and race/ethnicity in the United States: 2003 |
| Country and race/ethnicity | Average score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OECD average | 500 | |||
| United States1 | 483 | |||
| White | 512 | |||
| Black | 417 | |||
| Hispanic | 443 | |||
| Asian | 506 | |||
| More than one race | 502 | |||
| Countries whose score was higher than the U.S. score | ||||
| Australia | 524 | |||
| Austria | 506 | |||
| Belgium | 529 | |||
| Canada | 532 | |||
| Czech Republic | 516 | |||
| Denmark | 514 | |||
| Finland | 544 | |||
| France | 511 | |||
| Germany | 503 | |||
| Iceland | 515 | |||
| Ireland | 503 | |||
| Japan | 534 | |||
| Korea | 542 | |||
| Luxembourg | 493 | |||
| Netherlands | 538 | |||
| New Zealand | 523 | |||
| Norway | 495 | |||
| Slovak Republic | 498 | |||
| Switzerland | 527 | |||
| Sweden | 509 | |||
| Countries whose score was not measurably different than U.S. score | ||||
| Hungary | 490 | |||
| Poland | 490 | |||
| Spain | 485 | |||
| Countries whose score was lower than the U.S. score | ||||
| Greece | 445 | |||
| Italy | 466 | |||
| Mexico | 385 | |||
| Portugal | 466 | |||
| Turkey | 423 | |||
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1 Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown. NOTE: The scale range for the PISA assessment is from 0 to 1000. The scale was designed to have an average score of 500 points, with approximately two-thirds of students achieving between 400 and 600 points. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2003. |
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