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TIMSS Results 2011

Table 2. Average mathematics scores of 4th-grade students, by education system: 2011

Grade 4
Education system	Average score
TIMSS scale average	500
Singapore¹	606	△
Korea, Rep. of	605	△
Hong Kong-CHN¹	602	△
Chinese Taipei-CHN	591	△
Japan	585	△
Northern Ireland-GBR²	562	△
Belgium (Flemish)-BEL	549	△
Finland	545
England-GBR	542
Russian Federation	542
United States¹	541
Netherlands²	540
Denmark¹	537
Lithuania^1,3	534	▽
Portugal	532	▽
Germany	528	▽
Ireland	527	▽
Serbia¹	516	▽
Australia	516	▽
Hungary	515	▽
Slovenia	513	▽
Czech Republic	511	▽
Austria	508	▽
Italy	508	▽
Slovak Republic	507	▽
Sweden	504	▽
Kazakhstan¹	501	▽
Malta	496	▽
Norway⁴	495	▽
Croatia¹	490	▽
New Zealand	486	▽
Spain	482	▽
Romania	482	▽
Poland	481	▽
Turkey	469	▽
Azerbaijan^1,5	463	▽
Chile	462	▽
Thailand	458	▽
Armenia	452	▽
Georgia^3,5	450	▽
Bahrain	436	▽
United Arab Emirates	434	▽
Iran, Islamic Rep. of	431	▽
Qatar¹	413	▽
Saudi Arabia	410	▽
Oman⁶	385	▽
Tunisia⁶	359	▽
Kuwait^3,7	342	▽
Morocco⁷	335	▽
Yemen⁷	248	▽

Benchmarking education systems
North Carolina-USA^1,3	554	△
Florida-USA^3,8	545
Quebec-CAN	533	▽
Ontario-CAN	518	▽
Alberta-CAN¹	507	▽
Dubai-UAE	468	▽
Abu Dhabi-UAE	417	▽
△ Average score is higher than U.S. average score.
▽ Average score is lower than U.S. average score.
¹ National Defined Population covers 90 to 95 percent of National Target Population (see appendix A).
² Met guidelines for sample participation rates only after replacement schools were included.
³ National Target Population does not include all of the International Target Population (see appendix A).
⁴ Nearly satisfied guidelines for sample participation rates after replacement schools were included.
⁵ Exclusion rates for Azerbaijan and Georgia are slightly underestimated as some conflict zones were not covered and no official statistics were available.
⁶ The TIMSS 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.
⁷ The TIMSS 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 25 percent.
⁸ National Defined Population covers less than 90 percent, but at least 77 percent, of National Target Population (see appendix A).
NOTE: Education systems are ordered by 2011 average score. Italics indicate participants identified and counted in this report as an education system and not as a separate country. 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. All average scores reported as higher or lower than the U.S. average score are different at the05 level of statistical significance. The tests for significance take into account the standard error for the reported difference. Thus, a small difference between the United States and one education system may be significant while a large difference between the United States and another education system may not be significant. The standard errors of the estimates are shown in table E-1 available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2013009rev.
SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2011.

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