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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.9a: Mean scores in mathematics, by gender, and comparison with Scotland: OECD and UK administrations
| Overall | Gender differences | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean score | S.D. | Male | Female | |||||
| mean | s.e. | mean | s.e. | mean | s.e. | mean | s.e. | |
| Significantly above Scotland | ||||||||
| Belgium | 507 | (2.4) | 97 | (1.5) | 514 | (3.1) | 500 | (2.8) |
| Canada | 516 | (2.3) | 88 | (1.1) | 520 | (2.9) | 511 | (2.6) |
| Denmark | 511 | (2.2) | 81 | (1.2) | 516 | (2.5) | 506 | (2.8) |
| Estonia | 520 | (2.0) | 80 | (1.1) | 522 | (2.7) | 517 | (2.3) |
| Finland | 511 | (2.3) | 82 | (1.3) | 507 | (2.6) | 515 | (2.6) |
| Germany | 506 | (2.9) | 89 | (1.4) | 514 | (3.5) | 498 | (3.0) |
| Ireland | 504 | (2.1) | 80 | (1.4) | 512 | (3.0) | 495 | (2.4) |
| Japan | 532 | (3.0) | 88 | (1.7) | 539 | (3.8) | 525 | (3.1) |
| Korea | 524 | (3.7) | 100 | (1.8) | 521 | (5.2) | 528 | (3.9) |
| Netherlands | 512 | (2.2) | 92 | (1.5) | 513 | (2.6) | 511 | (2.5) |
| Norway | 502 | (2.2) | 85 | (1.1) | 501 | (2.9) | 503 | (2.3) |
| Poland | 504 | (2.4) | 88 | (1.7) | 510 | (2.8) | 499 | (2.8) |
| Slovenia | 510 | (1.3) | 88 | (1.3) | 512 | (1.9) | 508 | (2.2) |
| Switzerland | 521 | (2.9) | 96 | (1.6) | 527 | (3.2) | 515 | (3.5) |
| Similar to Scotland | ||||||||
| Australia | 494 | (1.6) | 93 | (1.2) | 497 | (2.1) | 491 | (2.5) |
| Austria | 497 | (2.9) | 95 | (1.8) | 510 | (3.8) | 483 | (3.6) |
| Czech Republic | 492 | (2.4) | 91 | (1.7) | 496 | (3.3) | 489 | (2.8) |
| England | 493 | (3.0) | 95 | (1.5) | 500 | (3.5) | 487 | (3.6) |
| France | 493 | (2.1) | 95 | (1.5) | 496 | (2.9) | 490 | (2.6) |
| Iceland | 488 | (2.0) | 93 | (1.3) | 487 | (2.9) | 489 | (2.4) |
| Italy | 490 | (2.8) | 94 | (1.7) | 500 | (3.5) | 480 | (3.4) |
| Luxembourg | 486 | (1.3) | 94 | (1.2) | 491 | (2.0) | 480 | (2.0) |
| Northern Ireland | 493 | (4.6) | 78 | (2.0) | 496 | (5.0) | 489 | (4.9) |
| New Zealand | 495 | (2.3) | 92 | (1.3) | 499 | (3.4) | 491 | (2.7) |
| OECD average | 490 | (0.4) | 89 | (0.3) | 494 | (0.6) | 486 | (0.5) |
| Portugal | 492 | (2.5) | 96 | (1.3) | 497 | (3.0) | 487 | (2.7) |
| Scotland | 491 | (2.6) | 84 | (1.4) | 495 | (3.2) | 488 | (3.3) |
| Spain | 486 | (2.2) | 85 | (1.3) | 494 | (2.4) | 478 | (2.8) |
| Sweden | 494 | (3.2) | 90 | (1.7) | 493 | (3.8) | 495 | (3.3) |
| United Kingdom | 492 | (2.5) | 93 | (1.4) | 498 | (2.9) | 487 | (3.1) |
| Significantly below Scotland | ||||||||
| Chile | 423 | (2.5) | 85 | (1.4) | 432 | (3.1) | 413 | (3.0) |
| Greece | 454 | (3.8) | 89 | (1.8) | 454 | (4.7) | 454 | (3.6) |
| Hungary | 477 | (2.5) | 94 | (1.7) | 481 | (3.6) | 473 | (3.0) |
| Israel | 470 | (3.6) | 103 | (2.2) | 474 | (5.4) | 466 | (4.0) |
| Latvia | 482 | (1.9) | 78 | (1.2) | 481 | (2.6) | 483 | (2.5) |
| Mexico | 408 | (2.2) | 75 | (1.3) | 412 | (2.7) | 404 | (2.4) |
| Slovak Republic | 475 | (2.7) | 95 | (1.6) | 478 | (3.0) | 472 | (3.6) |
| Turkey | 420 | (4.1) | 82 | (2.3) | 423 | (4.6) | 418 | (4.9) |
| United States | 470 | (3.2) | 88 | (1.5) | 474 | (3.6) | 465 | (3.4) |
| Wales | 478 | (3.7) | 78 | (1.7) | 483 | (3.9) | 473 | (4.1) |
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