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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.2a: Mean scores in science, 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 | 510 | (1.5) | 102 | (0.9) | 511 | (2.1) | 509 | (1.7) |
| Canada | 528 | (2.1) | 92 | (0.9) | 528 | (2.5) | 527 | (2.3) |
| England | 512 | (3.0) | 101 | (1.2) | 512 | (3.5) | 512 | (3.8) |
| Estonia | 534 | (2.1) | 89 | (1.1) | 536 | (2.7) | 533 | (2.3) |
| Finland | 531 | (2.4) | 96 | (1.3) | 521 | (2.7) | 541 | (2.6) |
| Germany | 509 | (2.7) | 99 | (1.5) | 514 | (3.2) | 504 | (2.8) |
| Japan | 538 | (3.0) | 93 | (1.6) | 545 | (4.1) | 532 | (2.9) |
| Korea | 516 | (3.1) | 95 | (1.5) | 511 | (4.6) | 521 | (3.3) |
| Netherlands | 509 | (2.3) | 101 | (1.5) | 511 | (2.9) | 507 | (2.5) |
| New Zealand | 513 | (2.4) | 104 | (1.4) | 516 | (3.2) | 511 | (2.7) |
| Slovenia | 513 | (1.3) | 95 | (1.1) | 510 | (1.9) | 516 | (1.9) |
| Switzerland | 506 | (2.9) | 100 | (1.5) | 508 | (3.1) | 502 | (3.5) |
| United Kingdom | 509 | (2.6) | 100 | (1.0) | 510 | (2.9) | 509 | (3.3) |
| Similar to Scotland | ||||||||
| Austria | 495 | (2.4) | 97 | (1.3) | 504 | (3.6) | 486 | (3.1) |
| Belgium | 502 | (2.3) | 100 | (1.2) | 508 | (3.1) | 496 | (2.7) |
| Czech Republic | 493 | (2.3) | 95 | (1.4) | 497 | (3.3) | 488 | (2.5) |
| Denmark | 502 | (2.4) | 90 | (1.1) | 505 | (2.6) | 499 | (3.2) |
| France | 495 | (2.1) | 102 | (1.4) | 496 | (2.7) | 494 | (2.7) |
| Ireland | 503 | (2.4) | 89 | (1.3) | 508 | (3.2) | 497 | (2.6) |
| Northern Ireland | 497 | (2.4) | 95 | (1.6) | 497 | (3.2) | 496 | (2.9) |
| Norway | 498 | (2.3) | 96 | (1.3) | 500 | (2.7) | 497 | (2.7) |
| OECD Average | 493 | (0.4) | 94 | (0.2) | 495 | (0.5) | 491 | (0.5) |
| Poland | 501 | (2.5) | 91 | (1.3) | 504 | (2.9) | 498 | (2.8) |
| Portugal | 501 | (2.4) | 92 | (1.1) | 506 | (2.9) | 496 | (2.6) |
| Scotland | 497 | (2.4) | 95 | (1.6) | 497 | (3.2) | 496 | (2.9) |
| Spain | 493 | (2.1) | 88 | (1.1) | 496 | (2.5) | 489 | (2.5) |
| Sweden | 493 | (3.6) | 102 | (1.4) | 491 | (4.1) | 496 | (3.7) |
| United States | 496 | (3.2) | 99 | (1.4) | 500 | (3.7) | 493 | (3.4) |
| Significantly below Scotland | ||||||||
| Chile | 447 | (2.4) | 86 | (1.3) | 454 | (3.1) | 440 | (2.7) |
| Greece | 455 | (3.9) | 92 | (1.8) | 451 | (4.6) | 459 | (3.9) |
| Hungary | 477 | (2.4) | 96 | (1.6) | 478 | (3.4) | 475 | (2.9) |
| Iceland | 473 | (1.7) | 91 | (1.2) | 472 | (2.6) | 475 | (2.1) |
| Israel | 467 | (3.4) | 106 | (1.6) | 469 | (4.7) | 464 | (4.1) |
| Italy | 481 | (2.5) | 91 | (1.4) | 489 | (3.1) | 472 | (3.6) |
| Latvia | 490 | (1.6) | 82 | (1.1) | 485 | (2.0) | 496 | (2.2) |
| Luxembourg | 483 | (1.1) | 100 | (1.1) | 487 | (1.7) | 479 | (1.5) |
| Mexico | 416 | (2.1) | 71 | (1.1) | 420 | (2.6) | 412 | (2.3) |
| Slovak Republic | 461 | (2.6) | 99 | (1.5) | 460 | (3.0) | 461 | (3.3) |
| Turkey | 425 | (3.9) | 79 | (1.9) | 422 | (4.5) | 429 | (4.4) |
| Wales | 485 | (2.8) | 89 | (1.3) | 487 | (3.3) | 482 | (3.3) |
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