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Table CPS10. Correlation between PISA collaborative problem solving scores and PISA science, reading, and mathematics literacy scores, by education system: 2015
	Science literacy		Reading literacy		Mathematics literacy
Education system	Correlation	s.e.	Correlation	s.e.	Correlation	s.e.
OECD average	0.77	0.002	0.74	0.002	0.70	0.002
Bulgaria	0.83	0.009	0.80	0.009	0.74	0.013
United States	0.82	0.008	0.79	0.010	0.76	0.009
United Arab Emirates	0.81	0.006	0.80	0.007	0.74	0.011
Hungary	0.81	0.009	0.78	0.010	0.74	0.010
Singapore	0.80	0.006	0.78	0.009	0.73	0.009
Colombia	0.80	0.008	0.74	0.010	0.74	0.010
Israel	0.80	0.009	0.78	0.011	0.75	0.011
B-S-J-G (China)	0.80	0.010	0.76	0.011	0.76	0.012
Lithuania	0.79	0.009	0.74	0.010	0.72	0.010
Peru	0.79	0.009	0.78	0.009	0.73	0.012
Estonia	0.79	0.009	0.74	0.011	0.71	0.011
Greece	0.79	0.011	0.75	0.011	0.73	0.014
Thailand	0.78	0.012	0.76	0.015	0.65	0.022
Finland	0.78	0.007	0.75	0.010	0.72	0.012
Austria	0.78	0.009	0.77	0.011	0.71	0.012
New Zealand	0.78	0.010	0.75	0.010	0.70	0.013
Macau (China)	0.78	0.010	0.78	0.009	0.65	0.016
Belgium	0.78	0.008	0.76	0.009	0.73	0.010
Luxembourg	0.78	0.008	0.78	0.009	0.73	0.012
France	0.78	0.010	0.75	0.012	0.70	0.011
Chinese Taipei	0.77	0.010	0.77	0.009	0.71	0.012
Sweden	0.77	0.010	0.78	0.008	0.71	0.010
Chile	0.77	0.010	0.74	0.012	0.70	0.012
Uruguay	0.77	0.009	0.73	0.012	0.71	0.011
Denmark	0.77	0.009	0.72	0.010	0.69	0.013
Netherlands	0.77	0.009	0.78	0.009	0.75	0.014
Korea, Republic of	0.77	0.010	0.76	0.012	0.72	0.011
Germany	0.77	0.006	0.72	0.009	0.70	0.012
Turkey	0.76	0.012	0.71	0.015	0.68	0.016
Portugal	0.76	0.008	0.74	0.009	0.70	0.011
United Kingdom	0.76	0.007	0.74	0.011	0.68	0.014
Australia	0.76	0.007	0.75	0.007	0.68	0.011
Mexico	0.76	0.009	0.73	0.014	0.67	0.015
Iceland	0.76	0.011	0.74	0.011	0.70	0.012
Croatia	0.76	0.009	0.75	0.010	0.69	0.012
Canada	0.75	0.008	0.74	0.009	0.67	0.011
Czech Republic	0.75	0.012	0.72	0.013	0.69	0.012
Latvia	0.75	0.010	0.73	0.009	0.66	0.015
Brazil	0.75	0.009	0.73	0.010	0.65	0.013
Cyprus	0.74	0.011	0.71	0.011	0.65	0.008
Norway	0.74	0.009	0.72	0.009	0.68	0.011
Montenegro, Republic of	0.74	0.008	0.70	0.012	0.66	0.012
Slovak Republic	0.74	0.011	0.74	0.009	0.69	0.013
Spain	0.74	0.010	0.71	0.010	0.66	0.012
Slovenia	0.74	0.008	0.73	0.011	0.68	0.012
Hong Kong (China)	0.74	0.010	0.73	0.012	0.64	0.013
Italy	0.73	0.012	0.68	0.011	0.65	0.016
Japan	0.72	0.011	0.73	0.012	0.66	0.014
Russian Federation	0.70	0.012	0.68	0.010	0.55	0.018
Costa Rica	0.68	0.012	0.67	0.013	0.59	0.019
Tunisia	0.65	0.019	0.58	0.022	0.59	0.023
U.S. state education systems
Massachusetts	0.83	0.01	0.80	0.01	0.78	0.02
North Carolina	0.83	0.01	0.81	0.01	0.77	0.02

NOTE: Education systems are ordered by 2015 science literacy correlation value from smallest to largest. B-S-J-G (China) refers to the four PISA participating China provinces: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. Malaysia administered the collaborative problem solving assessment but due to sampling issues its data were deemed not comparable and thus are not shown here. Standard error is noted by s.e. Italics indicate non-OECD countries and education systems. The OECD average is based on the distribution of scores among the 32 OECD member countries that participated in the collaborative problem solving assessment, with each system weighted equally. 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.