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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.9b: Mean scores in mathematics, 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 | ||||||||
| B-S-J-G (China) | 531 | (4.9) | 106 | (2.5) | 534 | (4.8) | 528 | (5.7) |
| Chinese Taipei | 542 | (3.0) | 103 | (1.9) | 545 | (4.7) | 539 | (4.1) |
| Hong Kong (China) | 548 | (3.0) | 90 | (1.5) | 549 | (3.6) | 547 | (4.3) |
| Macao (China) | 544 | (1.1) | 80 | (1.1) | 540 | (1.7) | 548 | (1.5) |
| Singapore | 564 | (1.5) | 95 | (0.8) | 564 | (2.1) | 564 | (1.7) |
| Similar to Scotland | ||||||||
| Russian Federation | 494 | (3.1) | 83 | (1.3) | 497 | (4.0) | 491 | (3.2) |
| Viet Nam | 495 | (4.5) | 84 | (2.7) | 493 | (4.7) | 496 | (4.8) |
| Significantly below Scotland | ||||||||
| Albania | 413 | (3.4) | 86 | (1.6) | 409 | (4.2) | 418 | (3.5) |
| Algeria | 360 | (3.0) | 71 | (1.5) | 356 | (3.1) | 363 | (3.6) |
| Argentina | 409 | (3.1) | 81 | (1.5) | 418 | (3.5) | 400 | (3.3) |
| Brazil | 377 | (2.9) | 89 | (1.7) | 385 | (3.2) | 370 | (3.0) |
| Bulgaria | 441 | (4.0) | 97 | (2.4) | 440 | (4.8) | 442 | (4.3) |
| Colombia | 390 | (2.3) | 77 | (1.3) | 395 | (3.3) | 384 | (2.4) |
| Costa Rica | 400 | (2.5) | 68 | (1.4) | 408 | (2.8) | 392 | (3.0) |
| Croatia | 464 | (2.8) | 88 | (1.6) | 471 | (3.7) | 458 | (3.4) |
| Cyprus | 437 | (1.7) | 92 | (1.1) | 435 | (2.1) | 440 | (2.2) |
| Dominican Republic | 328 | (2.7) | 69 | (2.0) | 326 | (3.2) | 330 | (2.8) |
| Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | 371 | (1.3) | 96 | (1.6) | 368 | (2.2) | 375 | (1.8) |
| Georgia | 404 | (2.8) | 94 | (2.2) | 398 | (3.9) | 411 | (2.5) |
| Indonesia | 386 | (3.1) | 80 | (2.0) | 385 | (3.5) | 387 | (3.7) |
| Jordan | 380 | (2.7) | 86 | (2.1) | 373 | (4.0) | 387 | (3.6) |
| Kazakhstan | 460 | (4.3) | 82 | (2.4) | 459 | (4.7) | 461 | (4.6) |
| Kosovo | 362 | (1.6) | 75 | (1.4) | 366 | (2.2) | 357 | (2.1) |
| Lebanon | 396 | (3.7) | 101 | (2.0) | 408 | (4.4) | 386 | (3.9) |
| Lithuania | 478 | (2.3) | 86 | (1.4) | 478 | (2.8) | 479 | (2.5) |
| Malaysia | 446 | (3.3) | 80 | (1.7) | 443 | (3.9) | 449 | (3.2) |
| Malta | 479 | (1.7) | 110 | (1.4) | 477 | (2.4) | 481 | (2.4) |
| Moldova | 420 | (2.5) | 90 | (1.5) | 419 | (2.9) | 421 | (3.1) |
| Montenegro | 418 | (1.5) | 87 | (1.4) | 418 | (2.1) | 418 | (2.0) |
| Peru | 387 | (2.7) | 83 | (1.4) | 391 | (3.0) | 382 | (3.2) |
| Qatar | 402 | (1.3) | 99 | (1.0) | 397 | (1.8) | 408 | (1.8) |
| Romania | 444 | (3.8) | 86 | (2.1) | 444 | (4.2) | 444 | (4.1) |
| Thailand | 415 | (3.0) | 82 | (1.9) | 414 | (3.7) | 417 | (3.4) |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 417 | (1.4) | 96 | (1.2) | 408 | (2.1) | 426 | (2.0) |
| Tunisia | 367 | (3.0) | 84 | (2.3) | 370 | (3.4) | 364 | (3.2) |
| United Arab Emirates | 427 | (2.4) | 97 | (1.3) | 424 | (3.9) | 431 | (2.9) |
| Uruguay | 418 | (2.5) | 87 | (1.7) | 425 | (3.6) | 412 | (2.5) |
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