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TIMSS Results 2011

Table 3. Average mathematics scores of 8th-grade students, by education system: 2011

Grade 8
Education system	Average score
TIMSS scale average	500
Korea, Rep. of	613	△
Singapore¹	611	△
Chinese Taipei-CHN	609	△
Hong Kong-CHN	586	△
Japan	570	△
Russian Federation¹	539	△
Israel²	516
Finland	514
United States¹	509
England-GBR³	507
Hungary	505
Australia	505
Slovenia	505
Lithuania⁴	502
Italy	498	▽
New Zealand	488	▽
Kazakhstan	487	▽
Sweden	484	▽
Ukraine	479	▽
Norway	475	▽
Armenia	467	▽
Romania	458	▽
United Arab Emirates	456	▽
Turkey	452	▽
Lebanon	449	▽
Malaysia	440	▽
Georgia^4,5	431	▽
Thailand	427	▽
Macedonia, Rep. of⁶	426	▽
Tunisia	425	▽
Chile	416	▽
Iran, Islamic Rep. of⁶	415	▽
Qatar⁶	410	▽
Bahrain⁶	409	▽
Jordan⁶	406	▽
Palestinian Nat'l Auth.⁶	404	▽
Saudi Arabia⁶	394	▽
Indonesia⁶	386	▽
Syrian Arab Republic⁶	380	▽
Morocco⁷	371	▽
Oman⁶	366	▽
Ghana⁷	331	▽

Benchmarking education systems
Massachusetts-USA^1,4	561	△
Minnesota-USA⁴	545	△
North Carolina-USA^2,4	537	△
Quebec-CAN	532	△
Indiana-USA^1,4	522	△
Colorado-USA⁴	518
Connecticut-USA^1,4	518
Florida-USA^1,4	513
Ontario-CAN¹	512
Alberta-CAN¹	505
California-USA^1,4	493	▽
Dubai-UAE	478	▽
Alabama-USA⁴	466	▽
Abu Dhabi-UAE	449	▽
△ Average score is higher than U.S. average score.
▽ Average score is lower than U.S. average score.
¹ National Defined Population covers 90 to 95 percent of National Target Population (see appendix A).
² National Defined Population covers less than 90 percent, but at least 77 percent, of National Target Population (see appendix A).
³ Nearly satisfied guidelines for sample participation rates after replacement schools were included.
⁴ National Target Population does not include all of the International Target Population (see appendix A).
⁵ Exclusion rates for Georgia are slightly underestimated as some conflict zones were not covered and no official statistics were available.
⁶ The TIMSS International Study Center has reservations about the reliability of the average achievement score because the percentage of students with achievement too low for estimation exceeds 15 percent, though it is less than 25 percent.
⁷ The TIMSS International Study Center has reservations about the reliability of the average achievement score because the percentage of students with achievement too low for estimation exceeds 25 percent.
NOTE: Education systems are ordered by 2011 average score. Italics indicate participants identified and counted in this report as an education system and not as a separate country. Participants that did not administer TIMSS at the target grade are not shown; see the international report for their results. All U.S. state data are based on public school students only. All average scores reported as higher or lower than the U.S. average score are different at the05 level of statistical significance. The tests for significance take into account the standard error for the reported difference. Thus, a small difference between the United States and one education system may be significant while a large difference between the United States and another education system may not be significant. The standard errors of the estimates are shown in table E-2 available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfor.asp?pubid=2013009.
SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2011.

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