PISA Education Test Scores Around the World

PROGRAMAME FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT THE PROGRAMME FOr INTERNATrIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT (PISA) IS AN OGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT THAT MEASURES THE PERFORMANCE OF 15-YEAR-OLDS IN MATHEMATICS, READING, AND SCIENCE, BELOW ARE THE 2009 RESULTS FROM ALL THREE PISA TESTS FOR THE 34 COUNTRIES IN THE ORGANISATION FOR CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT COECD), MATH SCORES | OECD AVERAGE (Y96) E REPUBLIC OF KOREA (546) FINLAND (5YI) SWITZERLAND (534) JAPAN (529) IN MATHEMATICS, PISA ASSESSES CANADA (527) HOW WELL STUDENTS ANALYZE, NETHERLANDS (526) NEW ZEALAND (S19) REASON, AND INTERPRET BELGIUM (SIS) MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS INA AUSTRALIA (S14) |GERMANY (513) ESTONIA (512) VARIETY OF SITUATIONS. KOREA AND FINLAND ARE THE ICELAND (507) DENMARK (503) HIGHEST PERFORMING DECD COUNTRIES WITH AVERAGE SLOVENIA (5Or SCORES OF 546 AND 541, THE ENORWAY (Y98) FRANCE (Y97) LOWEST PERFORMING DECD COUNTRY WAS MEXICO WITH AN SLOVAK REPUBLIC (V97) AUSTRIA (Y96) AVERAGE SCORE OF 419. POLAND (Y95) SWEDEN (YOY) CZECH REPUBLIC (Y93) THE UNITED STATES RANKED 25TH OUT OF THE 34 DECD UNITED KINGDOM (Y92) HUNGARY (V90) COUNTRIES, WITH AN AVERAGE SCORE OF 487 ON THE MATH LUXEMBOURG (489) UNITED STATES (487) E IRELAND (Y87) PORTUGAL (487) ASSESSMENT. SPAIN (Y83) ITALY (Y83) GREECE (Y66) ISRAEL (YY7) TURKEY (YYS) CHILE (Y21) MEXICO (Y19) 400 450 500 550 600 READING SCORES OECD AVERAGE (Y93) REPUBLIC OF KOREA (539) O FINLAND (536) CANADA (524) New ZEALAND (521) JAPAN (520) AUSTRALIA (SIS) NETHERLANDS (508) IN READING, PISA ASSESSES HOw WELL 15-YEAR-OLD STUDENTS CAN BELGIUM (506) NORWAY (503)E ESTONIA (SO) UNDERSTAND, USE, AND REFLECT ON WRITTEN TEXT FOR A VARIETry OF PURPOSES AND SETTINGS. SWITZERLAND (501) POLAND (500) ICELAND (500) KOREA AND FINLAND HAD THE UNITED STATES (500) SWEDEN (Y97 GERMANY (Y97) HIGHEST AVERAGE READING SCORES AMONG DECD NATIONS. WHILE CHILE AND MEXICO HAD THE IRELAND (Y6 FRANCE (Y96)I LOWEST AVERAGE SCORES. DENMARK (Y95) UNITED KINGDOM (Y9Y) RELATIVE TO ITS PERFORMANCE HUNGARY (Y9Y) ON THE OTHER TWO TESTS, THE UNITED STATES PERFORMED BEST ON THE READING ASSESSMENT IN COMPARISON TO THE OTHER OECD COUNTRIES. THE UNITED PORTUGAL (Y8 ITALY (YBU)n SLOVENTA (V83 GREECE (Y83)E SPAIN (Y8) CZECH REPUBLIC (Y78) SLOVAK REPUBLIC (Y77) ISRAEL (Y7Y)E LUXEMBOURG (Y72) STATES AVERAGE SCORE OF 50O PLACED IT 14TH AMONG THE OECD NATIONS. AUSTRIA (Y70) TURKEY (YOY)C CHILE (Y) MEXICO (425) 600 550 500 Y50 400 SCIENCE SCORES OECD AVERAGE (501) OFIMLAND (554) JAPAN (53) E REPUALIC or KOREA (538) New ZEALAND (532) CANADA (S29) ESTONIA (528) AUSTRALIA (527) NETHERLANDS (522) GERMANY (520) IN SCIENCE, PISA ASSESSES HOW WELL STUDENTS CAN APPLY SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SWITZERLAND (S17) UNITED KINGDOM (SIV) SLOVENTA (SI2) POLAND (508) E IRELAND (508) BELETUM (507) SKILLS TOA RANGE OF DIFFERENT SITUATIONS THEY MAY ENCOUNTER IN THEIR LIVES. HUNGARY (503) UNITED STATES (502) CZECH REPUBLIC (500) FINLAND, JAPAN, AND KOREA SCORED HIGH IN SCIENCE, WHILE CHILE AND MEXICO HAD THE HNORWAY (500) LOWEST SCORES. DENPARK (Y99) FRANCE (Y98) WITH AN AVERAGE SCcORE OF 502 ON THE SCIENCE ASSESSMENT, THE UNITED STATES RANKED 17TH AMONG THE OECD NATIONS. ICELAND (Y96) SWEDEN (Y95) AUSTRIA (YIY) PORTUGAL (Y93) SLOVAK REPUBLIC (490) METALY (V89) SPAIN (Y88) LUXEMBOURG (48Y) GREECE (Y70) ISRAEL (YS5) CTURKEY (Y54) CHILE (YY7) MEXICO (VI6) 400 Y50 500 550 600 SUMMARY- COUNTIRY RANKS PUTTING THE THREE SETS OF TEST SCORES TOGETHER SHOWS THAT THERE IS A SAMALL RANGE OF SCORES ACROSS THE THREE TESTS WITHIN EACH COUNTRY, FOR EXAMPLE, FINLAND AND KOREA TEND TO PERFORM WELL ON ALL THREE TESTS WHILE CHILE AND MEXICO TEND TO PERFORM POORLY ON ALL THREE TESTS. THIS SUMMARY GRAPHIC SHOWS THE RANKING OF EACH COUNTRY FOR ALL THREE TESTS (M=MATH, R=IREADING, S=SCIENCE). RANK - COUNTRY - AVERAGE RANK I 23 4 5 FINLAND 17 R MS 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 32 33 34 REPUBLIC OF KOREA L MR JAPAN 37 CANADA 43 MS NEW ZEALAND 50 RS NETHERLANDS 10 AUSTRALIA 13 SWITZERLAND BO ESTONIA 20 BELGIUM b3 MR GERMANY I NORMAY 43 POLAND 4.7 ICELAND 7 SLOVENIA 167 DENMARK 1ha UNITED KINGDOM I27 FRANCE 83 UNITED STATES I87 IRELAND 0 SWEDEN 19a HUNGARY 200 CZECH REPUBLIC 220 SLOVAK REPUBLIC 237 AUSTRIA 243 PORTUGAL 247 ITALY 263 SPAIN 213 LUKEMBOURG 21 AS GREECE 283 ISRAEL 203 AIS MS TURKEY 320 CHLE 330 MSR MEICO 340 MSR AUTHOR: JONATHAN SCHWABISH, JSCHWABIOYAHOO.COM SOURCES: OECD PROGRAMME FOR INTERNAIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT (PISA) AT Www.PISA.DECD.ORG; FLAG IMAGES FROM Www.FLAGPICTURES.ORG