Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2015 Results

State Results: North Carolina

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Table A10. Average scores of 15-year-old students on the PISA science literacy scale in North Carolina public schools compared with other participating education systems: 2015
Education systems higher than North Carolina
Singapore	Canada
Japan	Vietnam
Estonia	Hong Kong (China)
Chinese Taipei	B-S-J-G (China)
Finland	Korea, Republic of
Massachusetts	New Zealand
Macau (China)	Slovenia
Education systems not measurably different from North Carolina
Australia	Portugal
United Kingdom	Norway
Germany	United States
Netherlands	Austria
Switzerland	France
Ireland	Sweden
Belgium	OECD average
Denmark	Czech Republic
Poland	Spain
Education systems lower than North Carolina
Latvia	Turkey
Russian Federation	Trinidad and Tobago
Luxembourg	Thailand
Italy	Costa Rica
Hungary	Qatar
Lithuania	Colombia
Croatia	Mexico
Buenos Aires (Argentina)	Montenegro, Republic of
Iceland	Georgia
Israel	Jordan
Malta	Indonesia
Slovak Republic	Puerto Rico
Greece	Brazil
Chile	Peru
Bulgaria	Lebanon
United Arab Emirates	Tunisia
Uruguay	Macedonia, Republic of
Romania	Kosovo
Cyprus	Algeria
Moldova, Republic of	Dominican Republic
Albania

NOTE: All average scores reported as higher or lower than the North Carolina 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.