What Students Know And Can Do: Student Peformance In Reading

What Students Know And Can Do: Student Performance In Reading Score Reading performance and proportion of students from an immigrant background 550 y= 0.277x+ 490.6 R2 = 0.012 525 500 475 450 425 400 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 Proportion of 15 year-olds with an immigrant background How proficient are students in reading? Shanghai-China Korea Finland Hong Kong-China Canada Singapore Estonia Japan Australia Netherlands New Zealand Macao-China Norway Poland Denmark Chinese Taipei Liechtenstein Switzerland Iceland Ireland Students at Level la Sweden uana Hungary or below hangary Latvia United States Portugal Belgium United Kingdom Germany Spain France Italy Slovenia Greece Slovak Republic Croatia Czech Republic Lithuania Turkey Luxembourg Bunogu Israel Russian Federation Austria Chile Dubai (UAE) Serbia Mexice Mexico Romania Bulgaria Uruguay Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Colombia Jordan Montenegro Brazil Tunisia Argentina Indonesia Albania Kazakhstan Qatar Students at Level 2 Peru Panama or above Azerbaijan Kyrgyzstan 100 80 60 40 20 20 40 60 80 100 This over-all data shows the proficiency of reading in students from different regions around the world regardless of their abilities and disabilities. Such data helps many top colleges and universities get the idea of things that best interest a student and since reading is one of the core interests of most students, evaluation of it's proficiency is highly researched by NGOS out there which helps them fetch the data as stated above. Sources: http://stats.oecd.Org http://www.finestpapers.co.uk/ http://wikipedia.org/ FinestPapers .co.uk Reading And Perfor mance And Proporticn of St udents