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Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015: Highlights from Scotland's results
Report covering Scotland's performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015, covering maths reading and science.
Table A.12a: Mean scores in reading, by gender, and comparison with Scotland: OECD and UK administrations
Overall | Gender differences | |||||||
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Mean score | S.D. | Male | Female | |||||
mean | s.e. | s.d. | s.e. | mean | s.e. | mean | s.e. | |
Significantly above Scotland | ||||||||
Australia | 503 | (1.7) | 103 | (1.1) | 487 | (2.3) | 519 | (2.3) |
Canada | 527 | (2.3) | 93 | (1.3) | 514 | (2.6) | 540 | (2.5) |
Estonia | 519 | (2.2) | 87 | (1.2) | 505 | (2.9) | 533 | (2.3) |
Finland | 526 | (2.5) | 94 | (1.5) | 504 | (3.0) | 551 | (2.8) |
Germany | 509 | (3.0) | 100 | (1.6) | 499 | (3.7) | 520 | (3.1) |
Ireland | 521 | (2.5) | 86 | (1.5) | 515 | (3.2) | 527 | (2.7) |
Japan | 516 | (3.2) | 92 | (1.8) | 509 | (4.2) | 523 | (3.3) |
Korea | 517 | (3.5) | 97 | (1.7) | 498 | (4.8) | 539 | (4.0) |
Netherlands | 503 | (2.4) | 101 | (1.6) | 491 | (3.0) | 515 | (2.9) |
New Zealand | 509 | (2.4) | 105 | (1.7) | 493 | (3.3) | 526 | (3.0) |
Norway | 513 | (2.5) | 99 | (1.7) | 494 | (3.1) | 533 | (2.9) |
Poland | 506 | (2.5) | 90 | (1.3) | 491 | (2.9) | 521 | (2.8) |
Slovenia | 505 | (1.5) | 92 | (1.3) | 484 | (2.3) | 528 | (2.1) |
Similar to Scotland | ||||||||
Belgium | 499 | (2.4) | 100 | (1.5) | 491 | (3.1) | 507 | (2.9) |
Czech Republic | 487 | (2.6) | 100 | (1.7) | 475 | (3.6) | 501 | (2.9) |
Denmark | 500 | (2.5) | 87 | (1.2) | 489 | (2.8) | 511 | (3.4) |
England | 500 | (3.2) | 98 | (1.3) | 488 | (3.4) | 511 | (4.0) |
France | 499 | (2.5) | 112 | (2.0) | 485 | (3.3) | 514 | (3.3) |
Latvia | 488 | (1.8) | 85 | (1.5) | 467 | (2.3) | 509 | (2.4) |
Northern Ireland | 497 | (4.6) | 84 | (2.0) | 490 | (5.2) | 504 | (5.1) |
OECD average | 493 | (0.5) | 96 | (0.3) | 479 | (0.6) | 506 | (0.5) |
Portugal | 498 | (2.7) | 92 | (1.1) | 490 | (3.1) | 507 | (2.8) |
Spain | 496 | (2.4) | 87 | (1.4) | 485 | (3.0) | 506 | (2.8) |
Scotland | 493 | (2.3) | 91 | (1.6) | 483 | (3.0) | 504 | (2.8) |
Sweden | 500 | (3.5) | 102 | (1.5) | 481 | (4.1) | 520 | (3.5) |
Switzerland | 492 | (3.0) | 98 | (1.7) | 480 | (3.4) | 505 | (3.4) |
United Kingdom | 498 | (2.8) | 97 | (1.1) | 487 | (2.9) | 509 | (3.5) |
United States | 497 | (3.4) | 100 | (1.6) | 487 | (3.7) | 507 | (3.9) |
Significantly below Scotland | ||||||||
Austria | 485 | (2.8) | 101 | (1.5) | 475 | (4.3) | 495 | (3.7) |
Chile | 459 | (2.6) | 88 | (1.7) | 453 | (3.4) | 465 | (2.9) |
Greece | 467 | (4.3) | 98 | (2.4) | 449 | (5.1) | 486 | (4.2) |
Hungary | 470 | (2.7) | 97 | (1.7) | 457 | (3.7) | 482 | (3.1) |
Iceland | 482 | (2.0) | 99 | (1.7) | 460 | (2.8) | 502 | (2.6) |
Israel | 479 | (3.8) | 113 | (2.0) | 467 | (5.4) | 490 | (4.6) |
Italy | 485 | (2.7) | 94 | (1.6) | 477 | (3.5) | 493 | (3.6) |
Luxembourg | 481 | (1.4) | 107 | (1.0) | 471 | (1.9) | 492 | (2.2) |
Mexico | 423 | (2.6) | 78 | (1.5) | 416 | (2.9) | 431 | (2.9) |
Slovak Republic | 453 | (2.8) | 104 | (1.8) | 435 | (3.3) | 471 | (3.5) |
Turkey | 428 | (4.0) | 82 | (2.0) | 414 | (4.5) | 442 | (4.8) |
Wales | 477 | (3.6) | 85 | (1.5) | 472 | (4.2) | 483 | (3.6) |
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