Average TIMSS science content domain scores of 8th-grade students, by education system: 2011

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Average TIMSS science content domain scores of 8th-grade students, by education system: 2011

Education system	Biology		Chemistry		Physics		Earth science
Education system	Average score	s.e.	Average score	s.e.	Average score	s.e.	Average score	s.e.
Singapore¹	594	4.8	590	4.7	602	4.2	566	4.5
Korea, Rep. of	561	2.4	551	2.2	577	2.8	548	3.2
Japan	561	2.3	560	2.6	558	2.7	548	2.8
Chinese Taipei-CHN	557	2.5	585	3.9	552	3.4	568	2.9
Finland	548	2.9	554	2.5	540	2.7	574	3.0
Russian Federation¹	537	3.3	554	3.5	547	3.5	535	3.7
Hong Kong-CHN	535	3.5	526	3.6	539	3.6	539	3.7
England-GBR²	533	4.9	529	5.2	533	4.6	536	5.3
Slovenia	532	2.7	558	3.2	532	2.8	560	3.2
United States¹	530	*2.5*	520	*2.6*	513	*2.5*	533	*2.8*
Australia	527	4.7	501	5.1	511	5.1	533	5.4
Israel³	523	4.1	514	5.1	514	4.1	504	4.4
Hungary	520	3.0	534	3.4	525	3.7	511	3.3
Lithuania⁴	517	2.8	517	2.3	503	3.3	517	3.5
New Zealand	514	4.7	501	5.1	509	4.6	523	4.8
Sweden	513	3.0	502	2.7	498	3.2	520	2.8
Italy	503	3.0	491	3.1	490	2.8	513	3.8
Ukraine	492	3.1	512	3.9	503	3.8	495	3.6
Norway	491	2.5	488	2.8	481	3.6	516	3.5
Turkey	484	3.7	477	4.0	494	3.7	468	3.5
Kazakhstan	483	4.3	508	4.8	489	4.2	472	4.9
Iran, Islamic Rep. of	466	3.8	469	4.4	483	4.1	477	3.9
United Arab Emirates	463	2.4	464	2.2	461	2.3	466	2.5
Chile	462	2.5	447	3.0	453	2.6	476	2.8
Thailand	460	4.3	436	4.6	430	4.5	466	4.1
Romania	458	3.8	469	4.3	456	3.9	470	3.6
Tunisia	449	3.0	434	3.3	436	2.6	414	3.6
Bahrain	449	2.1	448	2.7	457	1.8	451	1.8
Jordan	447	4.3	463	4.4	446	4.2	436	4.2
Georgia^4,5	435	3.3	395	3.2	401	4.2	417	3.7
Saudi Arabia	430	4.5	428	4.4	437	4.2	441	3.5
Malaysia	427	6.2	426	6.6	435	6.6	401	6.5
Syrian Arab Republic	425	4.3	424	3.7	426	4.4	414	4.8
Armenia	420	3.2	452	3.9	441	3.7	421	3.3
Qatar	411	4.2	416	4.1	426	3.8	408	3.8
Indonesia	410	4.7	378	4.9	397	5.4	412	5.6
Oman	407	3.6	408	3.5	427	3.3	431	3.0
Palestinian Nat'l Auth.	407	3.9	432	4.0	432	3.8	406	3.3
Macedonia, Rep. of	400	6.0	416	5.5	398	6.0	403	6.5
Lebanon	395	5.2	435	5.3	405	5.4	365	6.4
Morocco	378	3.0	374	2.2	349	2.5	377	3.3
Ghana⁶	290	6.2	331	5.9	292	5.9	265	6.5
Benchmarking education systems
Massachusetts-USA^1,4	575	5.2	568	6.0	555	5.7	577	6.0
Minnesota-USA⁴	563	5.5	538	5.0	541	5.6	574	6.2
Alberta-CAN¹	554	2.7	521	2.6	545	2.4	559	2.7
Colorado-USA⁴	551	4.6	528	5.1	530	5.3	555	4.6
North Carolina-USA^3,4	541	6.0	531	7.2	510	6.0	540	6.5
Indiana-USA^1,4	540	5.0	526	5.0	522	5.1	540	5.8
Connecticut-USA^1,4	539	5.0	520	5.3	520	5.4	542	5.6
Ontario-CAN¹	531	2.6	495	2.5	521	2.7	528	3.4
Florida-USA^1,4	529	7.9	525	8.2	530	7.2	536	7.7
Quebec-CAN	525	2.9	515	3.1	502	3.2	536	2.9
California-USA^1,4	500	4.7	503	6.0	487	4.6	499	4.8
Alabama-USA⁴	491	6.1	480	6.6	476	5.9	487	7.9
Dubai-UAE	485	2.7	487	2.3	482	2.1	487	3.1
Abu Dhabi-UAE	459	4.3	461	3.9	459	3.9	461	4.7

¹National Defined Population covers 90 to 95 percent of National Target Population (see appendix A of source publication).
²Nearly satisfied guidelines for sample participation rates after replacement schools were included.
³National Defined population covers less than 90 percent, but at least 77 percent of National Target population (see appendix A of source publication).
⁴National Target Population does not include all of the International Target Population (see appendix A of source publication).
⁵Exclusion rates for Georgia are slightly underestimated as some conflict zones were not covered and no official statistics were available.
⁶The TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center has reservations about the reliability of the average achievement score because the percentage of students with achievement too low for estimation exceeds 15 percent, though it is less than 25 percent.
NOTE: Education systems are ordered by average score in biology domain. Italics indicate participants identified and counted in this report as an education system and not as a separate country. "Education system" is defined on page 1 of source publication. Participants that did not administer TIMSS at the target grade are not shown; see the international report for their results. All U.S. state data are based on public school students only. The Science scale ranges from 0 to 1000. Standard error is noted by s.e.
SOURCE: Provasnik, S., Kastberg, D., Ferraro, D., Lemanski, N., Roey, S., and Jenkins, F. (2012). Highlights From TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context (NCES 2013–009), supplemental table E-27. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.