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| Table B.1.34. | Average PISA combined science literacy scores and subscale scores of 15-year-old students, by jurisdiction: 2006 |
| Jurisdiction | Combined science literacy scale | Science literacy subscales | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifying scientific issues | Explaining phenomena scientifically | Using scientific evidence | ||||||||||
| Average score | s.e. | Average score | s.e. | Average score | s.e. | Average score | s.e. | |||||
| OECD average | 500 | 0.5 | 499 | 0.5 | 500 | 0.5 | 499 | 0.6 | ||||
| OECD countries | ||||||||||||
| Australia | 527 | 2.3 | 535 | 2.3 | 520 | 2.3 | 531 | 2.4 | ||||
| Austria | 511 | 3.9 | 505 | 3.7 | 516 | 4.0 | 505 | 4.7 | ||||
| Belgium | 510 | 2.5 | 515 | 2.7 | 503 | 2.5 | 516 | 3.0 | ||||
| Canada | 534 | 2.0 | 532 | 2.3 | 531 | 2.1 | 542 | 2.2 | ||||
| Czech Republic | 513 | 3.5 | 500 | 4.2 | 527 | 3.5 | 501 | 4.1 | ||||
| Denmark | 496 | 3.1 | 493 | 3.0 | 501 | 3.3 | 489 | 3.6 | ||||
| Finland | 563 | 2.0 | 555 | 2.3 | 566 | 2.0 | 567 | 2.3 | ||||
| France | 495 | 3.4 | 499 | 3.5 | 481 | 3.2 | 511 | 3.9 | ||||
| Germany | 516 | 3.8 | 510 | 3.8 | 519 | 3.7 | 515 | 4.6 | ||||
| Greece | 473 | 3.2 | 469 | 3.0 | 476 | 3.0 | 465 | 4.0 | ||||
| Hungary | 504 | 2.7 | 483 | 2.6 | 518 | 2.6 | 497 | 3.4 | ||||
| Iceland | 491 | 1.6 | 494 | 1.7 | 488 | 1.5 | 491 | 1.7 | ||||
| Ireland | 508 | 3.2 | 516 | 3.3 | 505 | 3.2 | 506 | 3.4 | ||||
| Italy | 475 | 2.0 | 474 | 2.2 | 480 | 2.0 | 467 | 2.3 | ||||
| Japan | 531 | 3.4 | 522 | 4.0 | 527 | 3.1 | 544 | 4.2 | ||||
| Korea, Republic of | 522 | 3.4 | 519 | 3.7 | 512 | 3.3 | 538 | 3.7 | ||||
| Luxembourg | 486 | 1.1 | 483 | 1.1 | 483 | 1.1 | 492 | 1.1 | ||||
| Mexico | 410 | 2.7 | 421 | 2.6 | 406 | 2.7 | 402 | 3.1 | ||||
| Netherlands | 525 | 2.7 | 533 | 3.3 | 522 | 2.7 | 526 | 3.3 | ||||
| New Zealand | 530 | 2.7 | 536 | 2.9 | 522 | 2.8 | 537 | 3.3 | ||||
| Norway | 487 | 3.1 | 489 | 3.1 | 495 | 3.0 | 473 | 3.6 | ||||
| Poland | 498 | 2.3 | 483 | 2.5 | 506 | 2.5 | 494 | 2.7 | ||||
| Portugal | 474 | 3.0 | 486 | 3.1 | 469 | 2.9 | 472 | 3.6 | ||||
| Slovak Republic | 488 | 2.6 | 475 | 3.2 | 501 | 2.7 | 478 | 3.3 | ||||
| Spain | 488 | 2.6 | 489 | 2.4 | 490 | 2.4 | 485 | 3.0 | ||||
| Sweden | 503 | 2.4 | 499 | 2.6 | 510 | 2.9 | 496 | 2.6 | ||||
| Switzerland | 512 | 3.2 | 515 | 3.0 | 508 | 3.3 | 519 | 3.4 | ||||
| Turkey | 424 | 3.8 | 427 | 3.4 | 423 | 4.1 | 417 | 4.3 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 515 | 2.3 | 514 | 2.3 | 517 | 2.3 | 514 | 2.5 | ||||
| United States | 489 | 4.2 | 492 | 3.8 | 486 | 4.3 | 489 | 5.0 | ||||
| Non-OECD jurisdictions | ||||||||||||
| Argentina | 391 | 6.1 | 395 | 5.7 | 386 | 6.0 | 385 | 7.0 | ||||
| Azerbaijan | 382 | 2.8 | 353 | 3.1 | 412 | 3.0 | 344 | 4.0 | ||||
| Brazil | 390 | 2.8 | 398 | 2.8 | 390 | 2.7 | 378 | 3.6 | ||||
| Bulgaria | 434 | 6.1 | 427 | 6.3 | 444 | 5.8 | 417 | 7.5 | ||||
| Chile | 438 | 4.3 | 444 | 4.1 | 432 | 4.1 | 440 | 5.1 | ||||
| Chinese Taipei | 532 | 3.6 | 509 | 3.7 | 545 | 3.7 | 532 | 3.7 | ||||
| Colombia | 388 | 3.4 | 402 | 3.4 | 379 | 3.4 | 383 | 3.9 | ||||
| Croatia | 493 | 2.4 | 494 | 2.6 | 492 | 2.5 | 490 | 3.0 | ||||
| Estonia | 531 | 2.5 | 516 | 2.6 | 541 | 2.6 | 531 | 2.7 | ||||
| Hong Kong-China | 542 | 2.5 | 528 | 3.2 | 549 | 2.5 | 542 | 2.7 | ||||
| Indonesia | 393 | 5.7 | 393 | 5.6 | 395 | 5.1 | 386 | 7.3 | ||||
| Israel | 454 | 3.7 | 457 | 3.9 | 443 | 3.6 | 460 | 4.7 | ||||
| Jordan | 422 | 2.8 | 409 | 2.8 | 438 | 3.1 | 405 | 3.3 | ||||
| Kyrgyz Republic | 322 | 2.9 | 321 | 3.2 | 334 | 3.1 | 288 | 3.8 | ||||
| Latvia | 490 | 3.0 | 489 | 3.3 | 486 | 2.9 | 491 | 3.4 | ||||
| Liechtenstein | 522 | 4.1 | 522 | 3.7 | 516 | 4.1 | 535 | 4.3 | ||||
| Lithuania | 488 | 2.8 | 476 | 2.7 | 494 | 3.0 | 487 | 3.1 | ||||
| Macao-China | 511 | 1.1 | 490 | 1.2 | 520 | 1.2 | 512 | 1.2 | ||||
| Qatar | 349 | 0.9 | 352 | 0.8 | 356 | 1.0 | 324 | 1.2 | ||||
| Republic of Montenegro | 412 | 1.1 | 401 | 1.2 | 417 | 1.1 | 407 | 1.3 | ||||
| Republic of Serbia | 436 | 3.0 | 431 | 3.0 | 441 | 3.1 | 425 | 3.7 | ||||
| Romania | 418 | 4.2 | 409 | 3.6 | 426 | 4.0 | 407 | 6.0 | ||||
| Russian Federation | 479 | 3.7 | 463 | 4.2 | 483 | 3.4 | 481 | 4.2 | ||||
| Slovenia | 519 | 1.1 | 517 | 1.4 | 523 | 1.5 | 516 | 1.3 | ||||
| Thailand | 421 | 2.1 | 413 | 2.5 | 420 | 2.1 | 423 | 2.6 | ||||
| Tunisia | 386 | 3.0 | 384 | 3.8 | 383 | 2.9 | 382 | 3.7 | ||||
| Uruguay | 428 | 2.7 | 429 | 3.0 | 423 | 2.9 | 429 | 3.1 | ||||
| NOTE: The OECD average is the average of the national averages of the OECD member countries. Because PISA is principally an OECD study, the results for non-OECD jurisdictions are displayed separately from those of the OECD countries and are not included in the OECD average. Because of an error in printing the test booklets, the United States mean performance may be misestimated by approximately 1 score point. The impact is below one standard error. For details see appendix B of Baldi et al. (2007). Apparent differences may not be statistically significant. Standard error is noted by s.e. | ||||||||||||
| SOURCE: Data from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2006. Baldi, S., Jin, Y., Skemer, M., Green, P.J., and Herget, D. (2007). Highlights From PISA 2006: Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Science and Mathematics Literacy in an International Context (NCES 2008-016), table C-2. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC. |
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