Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2012 Results -Problem Solving: Student Race/Ethnicity

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Problem Solving: Student Race/Ethnicity

Average Scores

Table PS8. Average scores of U.S. 15-year-old students on PISA problem solving scale, by race/ethnicity: 2012
Race/ethnicity	Average score		*s.e.*
U.S. average	508	**	*3.9*
White	532	*	4.2
Black	436	*	7.1
Hispanic	486	*	5.7
Asian	564	*	10.9
Multiracial	523	**	8.7
OECD average (PS)	500	*******	*0.7*
* p<.05. Significantly different from both the U.S. and OECD averages at the .05 level of statistical significance. p<.05. Significantly different from the OECD average at the .05 level of statistical significance. * p<.05. Significantly different from the U.S. average at the .05 level of statistical significance. NOTE: Scores are reported on a scale from 0 to 1,000. Reporting standards were not met for American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander. Black includes African American, and Hispanic includes Latino. Students who identified themselves as being of Hispanic origin were classified as Hispanic, regardless of their race. Although data for some race/ethnicities were not shown separately because the reporting standards were not met, they are included in the U.S. and state totals. The OECD average (PS) is the average of the national percentages of the 28 OECD member countries that participated in the problem solving (PS) assessment, with each country weighted equally. The following OECD countries did not participate in the problem solving assessment: Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, and Switzerland. Standard error is noted by s.e. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2012.