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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.12b: Mean scores in reading, by gender, and comparison with Scotland: non- OECD countries and economies
| 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 | ||||||||
| Macao (China) | 509 | (1.3) | 82 | (1.1) | 493 | (1.9) | 525 | (1.6) |
| Hong Kong (China) | 527 | (2.7) | 86 | (1.5) | 513 | (3.4) | 541 | (3.6) |
| Singapore | 535 | (1.6) | 99 | (1.1) | 525 | (1.9) | 546 | (2.3) |
| Similar to Scotland | ||||||||
| B-S-J-G (China) | 494 | (5.1) | 109 | (2.9) | 486 | (5.0) | 503 | (5.8) |
| Chinese Taipei | 497 | (2.5) | 93 | (1.7) | 485 | (3.7) | 510 | (3.4) |
| Croatia | 487 | (2.7) | 91 | (1.6) | 473 | (3.3) | 500 | (3.0) |
| Russian Federation | 495 | (3.1) | 87 | (1.4) | 481 | (3.4) | 507 | (3.5) |
| Viet Nam | 487 | (3.7) | 73 | (2.0) | 474 | (4.0) | 499 | (3.8) |
| Significantly below Scotland | ||||||||
| Albania | 405 | (4.1) | 97 | (1.8) | 376 | (4.8) | 435 | (3.8) |
| Algeria | 350 | (3.0) | 73 | (1.6) | 335 | (2.9) | 366 | (3.5) |
| Argentina | 425 | (3.2) | 89 | (1.7) | 417 | (3.7) | 433 | (3.5) |
| Brazil | 407 | (2.8) | 100 | (1.5) | 395 | (3.1) | 419 | (3.0) |
| Bulgaria | 432 | (5.0) | 115 | (2.6) | 409 | (5.8) | 457 | (5.0) |
| Colombia | 425 | (2.9) | 90 | (1.5) | 417 | (3.6) | 432 | (3.2) |
| Costa Rica | 427 | (2.6) | 79 | (1.6) | 420 | (3.1) | 435 | (2.9) |
| Cyprus1 | 443 | (1.7) | 102 | (1.3) | 417 | (2.0) | 469 | (2.1) |
| Dominican Republic | 358 | (3.1) | 85 | (1.9) | 342 | (3.5) | 373 | (3.1) |
| Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | 352 | (1.4) | 99 | (1.2) | 330 | (2.3) | 376 | (1.8) |
| Georgia | 401 | (3.0) | 104 | (1.8) | 374 | (4.1) | 432 | (2.8) |
| Indonesia | 397 | (2.9) | 76 | (1.8) | 386 | (3.4) | 409 | (3.3) |
| Jordan | 408 | (2.9) | 94 | (1.8) | 372 | (4.3) | 444 | (3.4) |
| Kazakhstan | 427 | (3.4) | 80 | (2.3) | 419 | (3.9) | 435 | (3.7) |
| Kosovo | 347 | (1.6) | 78 | (1.1) | 329 | (2.2) | 365 | (2.0) |
| Lebanon | 347 | (4.4) | 115 | (2.6) | 339 | (5.4) | 353 | (4.7) |
| Lithuania | 472 | (2.7) | 94 | (1.5) | 453 | (3.1) | 492 | (3.0) |
| Malaysia | 431 | (3.5) | 81 | (1.9) | 414 | (3.8) | 445 | (3.6) |
| Malta | 447 | (1.8) | 121 | (1.5) | 426 | (2.7) | 468 | (2.2) |
| Moldova | 416 | (2.5) | 98 | (1.5) | 390 | (2.7) | 442 | (3.0) |
| Montenegro | 427 | (1.6) | 94 | (1.2) | 410 | (2.0) | 444 | (2.3) |
| Peru | 398 | (2.9) | 89 | (1.6) | 394 | (3.4) | 401 | (3.6) |
| Qatar | 402 | (1.0) | 111 | (1.0) | 376 | (1.3) | 429 | (1.4) |
| Romania | 434 | (4.1) | 95 | (2.1) | 425 | (4.4) | 442 | (4.4) |
| Thailand | 409 | (3.3) | 80 | (1.7) | 392 | (4.3) | 423 | (3.2) |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 427 | (1.5) | 104 | (1.3) | 401 | (2.1) | 452 | (2.2) |
| Tunisia | 361 | (3.1) | 82 | (1.9) | 348 | (3.9) | 373 | (3.0) |
| United Arab Emirates | 434 | (2.9) | 106 | (1.4) | 408 | (3.9) | 458 | (3.3) |
| Uruguay | 437 | (2.5) | 97 | (1.6) | 424 | (3.4) | 448 | (2.7) |
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