Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2015 Results

State Results: Massachusetts

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Table A5. Average scores of 15-year-old students on the PISA mathematics literacy scale in Massachusetts public schools compared with other participating education systems: 2015
Education systems higher than Massachusetts
Singapore	Korea, Republic of
Hong Kong (China)	Switzerland
Macau (China)	Estonia
Chinese Taipei	Canada
Japan	Netherlands
B-S-J-G (China)
Education systems not measurably different from Massachusetts
Denmark	Vietnam
Finland	Russian Federation
Slovenia	Sweden
Belgium	Australia
Germany	France
Poland	United Kingdom
Ireland	Czech Republic
Norway	Portugal
Austria	OECD average
New Zealand	Italy
Education systems lower than Massachusetts
Iceland	Uruguay
Spain	Montenegro, Republic of
Luxembourg	Trinidad and Tobago
Latvia	Thailand
Malta	Albania
Lithuania	Mexico
Hungary	Georgia
Slovak Republic	Qatar
North Carolina	Costa Rica
Israel	Lebanon
United States	Colombia
Croatia	Peru
Buenos Aires (Argentina)	Indonesia
Greece	Jordan
Romania	Puerto Rico
Bulgaria	Brazil
Cyprus	Macedonia, Republic of
United Arab Emirates	Tunisia
Chile	Kosovo
Turkey	Algeria
Moldova, Republic of	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.