The most comprehensive comparison of student achievement in math and science around the globe undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) focuses on math understanding of 15 year olds (the 2014 report will focus on science). The 2009 report focused on the results of science education student achievement around the globe.
2012 results for the math portion (rank – country – mean score)(I am not listing all countries):
- 1 – Singapore – 573
- 2 – Korea – 554
- 3 – Japan – 536
- 5 – Switzerland – 531
- 6 – Netherlands – 523
- 7 – Estonia – 521
- 8 – Finland – 519
- 9 – Canada – 518
- 12 – Germany – 514
- 24 – UK – 494 (this is also the OECD average)
- 34 – USA – 481
- 49 – Malaysia – 421
- 50 – Mexico – 413
All 34 OECD member countries and 31 partner countries and economies participated in PISA 2012, representing more than 80% of the world economy. Portions of China participated and did very well including Shanghai-China (highest mean score of 613 points – if you ranked that as a country, I ignored these “regional results” in the ranks I shown here), Hong Kong-China (561, 3rd if including countries and regions together), Chinese Taipei [Taiwan] (560, 4th), Macao-China (538, 6th).
Boys perform better than girls in mathematics in 38 out of the 65 countries and economies that participated in PISA 2012, and girls outperform boys in 5 countries.
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