Collaborative Problem Solving: Average Scores

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Table CPS1. Average scores of 15-year-old students on the PISA collaborative problem solving scale, by education system: 2015
Education system	Average score		s.e.
OECD average	500		0.5
Singapore	561		1.2
Japan	552		2.7
Hong Kong (China)	541		2.9
Korea, Republic of	538		2.5
Canada	535		2.3
Estonia	535		2.5
Finland	534		2.6
Macau (China)	534		1.2
New Zealand	533		2.4
Australia	531		1.9
Chinese Taipei	527		2.5
Germany	525		2.8
United States	520		3.6
Denmark	520		2.5
United Kingdom	519		2.7
Netherlands	518		2.4
Sweden	510		3.4
Austria	509		2.6
Norway	502		2.5
Slovenia	502		1.8
Belgium	501		2.4
Iceland	499		2.3
Czech Republic	499		2.2
Portugal	498		2.6
Spain	496		2.1
B-S-J-G (China)	496		4.0
France	494		2.4
Luxembourg	491		1.5
Latvia	485		2.3
Italy	478		2.5
Russian Federation	473		3.4
Croatia	473		2.5
Hungary	472		2.4
Israel	469		3.6
Lithuania	467		2.5
Slovak Republic	463		2.4
Greece	459		3.6
Chile	457		2.7
Cyprus	444		1.7
Bulgaria	444		3.9
Uruguay	443		2.3
Costa Rica	441		2.4
Thailand	436		3.5
United Arab Emirates	435		2.4
Mexico	433		2.5
Colombia	429		2.3
Turkey	422		3.4
Peru	418		2.5
Montenegro, Republic of	416		1.3
Brazil	412		2.3
Tunisia	382		1.9
U.S. state education systems
Massachusetts	549		6.2
North Carolina	525		5.3

Average score is higher than U.S. average score at the .05 level of statistical significance. Average score is lower than U.S. average score at the .05 level of statistical significance. NOTE: Education systems are ordered by 2015 average score. Scores are reported on a scale from 0 to 1,000. The OECD average is the average of the national average scores of the 32 OECD member countries that participated in the collaborative problem solving assessment, with each system weighted equally. B-S-J-G (China) refers to the four PISA participating China provinces: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. Malaysia participated in the assessment but due to technical issues its data were not deemed comparable and so are not shown here. Standard error is noted by s.e. Italics indicate non-OECD countries and education systems. Results for Massachusetts and North Carolina are for public school students only. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015.