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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.5: Mean scores in science knowledge categories: OECD and UK administrations
| Content knowledge | Procedural and epistemic knowledge | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | s.e. | Mean | s.e. | |
| Australia | 505 | (1.8) | 508 | (1.7) |
| Austria | 504 | (2.7) | 488 | (2.4) |
| Belgium | 495 | (2.3) | 504 | (2.4) |
| Canada | 527 | (2.1) | 526 | (2.4) |
| Chile | 451 | (2.5) | 443 | (2.5) |
| Czech Republic | 500 | (2.4) | 481 | (2.3) |
| Denmark | 501 | (2.6) | 496 | (2.4) |
| Estonia | 539 | (2.1) | 532 | (2.2) |
| Finland | 537 | (2.3) | 519 | (2.5) |
| France | 488 | (2.1) | 497 | (2.2) |
| Germany | 513 | (2.8) | 504 | (2.8) |
| Greece | 454 | (4.0) | 452 | (3.9) |
| Hungary | 483 | (2.5) | 472 | (2.7) |
| Iceland | 471 | (1.7) | 473 | (2.0) |
| Ireland | 504 | (2.3) | 502 | (2.4) |
| Israel | 461 | (3.5) | 471 | (3.5) |
| Italy | 486 | (2.7) | 476 | (2.6) |
| Japan | 540 | (3.1) | 533 | (3.0) |
| Korea | 507 | (3.1) | 515 | (3.0) |
| Latvia | 487 | (1.6) | 490 | (1.7) |
| Luxembourg | 483 | (1.3) | 479 | (1.0) |
| Mexico | 415 | (2.1) | 414 | (2.4) |
| Netherlands | 503 | (2.4) | 507 | (2.3) |
| New Zealand | 512 | (2.6) | 510 | (2.5) |
| Norway | 504 | (2.4) | 494 | (2.4) |
| Poland | 504 | (2.7) | 498 | (2.5) |
| Portugal | 499 | (2.5) | 501 | (2.6) |
| Slovak Republic | 463 | (2.6) | 455 | (2.7) |
| Slovenia | 520 | (1.5) | 506 | (1.5) |
| Spain | 498 | (2.2) | 490 | (2.2) |
| Sweden | 498 | (3.6) | 487 | (3.6) |
| Switzerland | 508 | (3.0) | 502 | (3.0) |
| Turkey | 425 | (4.0) | 427 | (4.0) |
| United Kingdom | 513 | (2.7) | 508 | (2.5) |
| United States | 490 | (3.4) | 501 | (3.3) |
| Scotland | 496 | (2.8) | 495 | (2.4) |
| Northern Ireland | 504 | (2.9) | 500 | (3.2) |
| Wales | 491 | (2.8) | 483 | (3.0) |
| England | 516 | (3.2) | 511 | (2.9) |
| OECD average | 494 | (0.4) | 490 | (0.4) |