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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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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