Average PISA mathematics literacy scores of 15-year-old students, by jurisdiction: 2000, 2003, and 2006

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Table B.1.17.

Average PISA mathematics literacy scores of 15-year-old students, by jurisdiction: 2000, 2003, and 2006

	2000^1,2					2003				2006
Jurisdiction	Average score			s.e.		Average score		s.e.		Average score		s.e.
OECD average		500		0.7			500	0.6	∆		498	0.5	∆

OECD countries
Australia		533		3.5	∆		524	2.1	∆		520	2.2	∆
Austria		515		2.5	∆		506	3.3	∆		505	3.7	∆
Belgium		520		3.9	∆		529	2.3	∆		520	3.0	∆
Canada		533		1.4	∆		532	1.8	∆		527	2.0	∆
Czech Republic		498		2.8			516	3.5	∆		510	3.6	∆

Denmark		514		2.4	∆		514	2.7	∆		513	2.6	∆
Finland		536		2.2	∆		544	1.9	∆		548	2.3	∆
France		517		2.7	∆		511	2.5	∆		496	3.2	∆
Germany		490		2.5			503	3.3	∆		504	3.9	∆
Greece		447		5.6	▼		445	3.9	▼		459	3.0	▼

Hungary		488		4.0			490	2.8			491	2.9	∆
Iceland		514		2.3	∆		515	1.4	∆		506	1.8	∆
Ireland		503		2.7			503	2.4	∆		501	2.8	∆
Italy		457		2.9	▼		466	3.1	▼		462	2.3	▼
Japan		557		5.5	∆		534	4.0	∆		523	3.3	∆

Korea, Republic of		547		2.8	∆		542	3.2	∆		547	3.8	∆
Luxembourg		446		2.0	▼		493	1.0	∆		490	1.1	∆
Mexico		387		3.4	▼		385	3.6	▼		406	2.9	▼
Netherlands		(³)		†			538	3.1	∆		531	2.6	∆
New Zealand		537		3.1	∆		523	2.3	∆		522	2.4	∆

Norway		499		2.8			495	2.4	∆		490	2.6	∆
Poland		470		5.5	▼		490	2.5			495	2.4	∆
Portugal		454		4.1	▼		466	3.4	▼		466	3.1
Slovak Republic		—		†			498	3.3	∆		492	2.8	∆
Spain		476		3.1	▼		485	2.4			480	2.3

Sweden		510		2.5	∆		509	2.6	∆		502	2.4	∆
Switzerland		529		4.4	∆		527	3.4	∆		530	3.2	∆
Turkey		—		†			423	6.7	▼		424	4.9	▼
United Kingdom		529		2.5	∆		(4)	†			495	2.1	∆
United States		493		*7.6*			483	*2.9*			474	*4.0*

Non-OECD jurisdictions
Albania		381	⁵	3.1	▼		—	†			—	†
Argentina		388	⁵	9.4	▼		—	†			381	6.2	▼
Azerbaijan		—		†			—	†			476	2.3
Brazil		334		3.7	▼		356	4.8	▼		370	2.9	▼
Bulgaria		430	⁵	5.7	▼		—	†			413	6.1	▼

Chile		384	⁵	3.7	▼		—	†			411	4.6	▼
Chinese Taipei		—		†			—	†			549	4.1	∆
Colombia		—		†			—	†			370	3.8	▼
Croatia		—		†			—	†			467	2.4
Estonia		—		†			—	†			515	2.7	∆

Hong Kong-China		560	⁵	3.3	∆		550	4.5	∆		547	2.7	∆
Indonesia		367	⁵	4.5	▼		360	3.9	▼		391	5.6	▼
Israel		433	⁵	9.3	▼		—	†			442	4.3	▼
Jordan		—		†			—	†			384	3.3	▼
Kyrgyz Republic		—		†			—	†			311	3.4	▼

Latvia		463		4.5	▼		483	3.7			486	3.0	∆
Liechtenstein		514		7.0	∆		536	4.1	∆		525	4.2	∆
Lithuania		—		†			—	†			486	2.9	∆
Macao-China		—		†			527	2.9	∆		525	1.3	∆
Macedonia, FYR		381		2.7	▼		—	†			—	†

Montenegro, Republic of⁶		—		†			—	†			399	1.4	▼
Peru		292		4.4	▼		—	†			—	†
Qatar		—		†			—	†			318	1.0	▼
Romania		426		4.3	▼		—	†			415	4.2	▼
Russian Federation		478		5.5			468	4.2	▼		476	3.9

Serbia, Republic of⁶		—		†			437	3.8	▼		435	3.5	▼
Slovenia		—		†			—	†			504	1.0	∆
Thailand		432	⁵	3.6	▼		417	3.0	▼		417	2.3	▼
Tunisia		—		†			359	2.5	▼		365	4.0	▼
Uruguay		—		†			422	3.3	▼		427	2.6	▼

∆ Score is higher than U.S. score (p <.05).

▼ Score is lower than U.S. score (p <.05).

— Not available. (Data were not collected or not reported.)

† Not applicable.

1 Tests for significance have been updated from what was presented in the PISA 2000 U.S. report (Lemke, Calsyn, Lippman, Jocelyn, Kastberg, Liu, Roey, Williams, Kruger, and Bairu, 2001). Some jurisdiction differences reported here were not reported as statistically significant in the PISA 2000 U.S. report. In that report, a Bonferroni adjustment was used in all multiple comparisons of jurisdictions. This was not the case when PISA 2003 and 2006 data were analyzed and reported, thus PISA 2000 tests have been updated in this report to keep consistency across years. For more details, see appendix A of Provasnik, Gonzales, and Miller (2009).

2 The PISA mathematics framework was revised in 2003. Because of changes in the framework, it is not possible to compare mathematics learning outcomes from PISA 2000 with those from PISA 2003 and PISA 2006. The line dividing PISA 2000 results from those of PISA 2003 and PISA 2006 indicates that these data are not comparable. For more details, see OECD 2007 (available at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/17/39703267.pdf).

³Because of technical problems with its sample, 2000 data for the Netherlands have been omitted from PISA reports.

⁴Because of low response rates, 2003 data for the United Kingdom have been omitted from PISA reports.

⁵Did not participate with other jurisdictions in PISA in 2000; administered PISA in 2001.

⁶The Republics of Montenegro and Serbia were a united jurisdiction for the PISA 2003 assessment.

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. Mathematics literacy scores are reported on a scale from 0 to 1,000. The tests for significance take into account the standard error for the reported difference. Thus, a small difference between the United States and one jurisdiction may be significant while a large difference between the United States and another jurisdiction may not be significant. Standard error is noted by s.e.

SOURCE: Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2000, 2003, and 2006. Provasnik, S., Gonzales, P., and Miller, D. (2009). U.S. Performance Across International Assessments of Student Achievement: Special Supplement to The Condition of Education 2009 (NCES 2009-083), table A-5. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.