Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2015 Results

State Results: Massachusetts

PISA 2015 Results

Science Scores

Table A1. Average scores of 15-year-old students on the PISA science literacy scale in Massachusetts public schools compared with other participating education systems: 2015
Education systems higher than Massachusetts
Singapore
Education systems not measurably different from Massachusetts
Japan	Canada
Estonia	Vietnam
Chinese Taipei	Hong Kong (China)
Finland	B-S-J-G (China)
Macau (China)	Korea, Republic of
Education systems lower than Massachusetts
New Zealand	Malta
Slovenia	Slovak Republic
Australia	Greece
United Kingdom	Chile
Germany	Bulgaria
Netherlands	United Arab Emirates
Switzerland	Uruguay
Ireland	Romania
North Carolina	Cyprus
Belgium	Moldova, Republic of
Denmark	Albania
Poland	Turkey
Portugal	Trinidad and Tobago
Norway	Thailand
United States	Costa Rica
Austria	Qatar
France	Colombia
Sweden	Mexico
OECD average	Montenegro, Republic of
Czech Republic	Georgia
Spain	Jordan
Latvia	Indonesia
Russian Federation	Puerto Rico
Luxembourg	Brazil
Italy	Peru
Hungary	Lebanon
Lithuania	Tunisia
Croatia	Macedonia, Republic of
Buenos Aires (Argentina)	Kosovo
Iceland	Algeria
Israel	Dominican Republic

NOTE: All average scores reported as higher or lower than the Massachusetts average score are different at the .05 level of statistical significance. The OECD average is the average of the national averages of the OECD member countries, with each country weighted equally. Italics indicate non-OECD countries and education systems. B-S-J-G (China) refers to the four PISA participating China provinces: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. Results for Massachusetts and North Carolina are for public school students only. Although Argentina, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan participated in PISA 2015, technical problems with their samples prevent results from being discussed in this report.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015.