Table 390. | Characteristics of educational systems participating in theInternational Assessment of Educational Progress: 1991 |
_________________________________________________________________________________________ | Ethnic |Age for | Average | Average |Nation-| Percent of Country | homogen-|starting| days in |minutes of | al |schools with | eity\1\ | school | school |instruction|curric-| one or more | | | year\2\ | in school | ulum | problems\2\3\ | | | | day\2\ | | ________________________|_________|________|__________|___________|_______|______________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 ________________________|_________|________|__________|___________|_______|______________ Populations | | | | | | (comprehensive) | | | | | | | | | | | | Canada\4\ ..............| No | 6 | 188 (0.2)| 304 (0.8)| No | 13 (1.3) France..................| Yes | 6 | 174 (1.7)| 370 (3.4)| Yes | 29 (4.9) Hungary.................| Yes | 6 | 177 (1.5)| 223 (1.3)| Yes | 32 (4.2) Ireland ................| Yes | 6 | 173 (0.9)| 323 (4.4)| Yes | 39 (5.8) Israel\5\ ..............| No | 6 | 215 (2.2)| 278 (6.5)| Yes | 46 (6.7) Jordan..................| Yes | 6 | 191 (0.9)| 260 (2.9)| Yes | 63 (5.3) Korea...................| Yes | 6 | 222 (2.5)| 264 (2.4)| Yes | 24 (4.9) Scotland................| Yes | 5 | 191 (0.9)| 324 (2.3)| Yes | 23 (4.0) Slovenia................| Yes | 7 | 190 (1.5)| 248 (2.5)| Yes | 50 (5.3) Spain\6\ ...............| No | 6 | 188 (2.3)| 285 (3.2)| Yes | 33 (5.0) (Former) Soviet Union\7\| No | 6 or 7 | 198 (2.1)| 243 (2.6)| Yes | 72 (5.1) Switzerland\8\ .........| No | 6 or 7 | 207 (3.2)| 305 (7.4)| No | 11 (3.5) Taiwan..................| No | 6 | 222 (2.5)| 318 (6.9)| Yes | 10 (2.8) United States...........| No | 6 | 178 (0.4)| 338 (5.0)| No | 5 (2.2) | | | | | | | | | | | | Populations | | | | | | (with exclusions or | | | | | | low participation) | | | | | | | | | | | | Brazil, Fortaleza.......| No | 7 | 183 (1.1)| 223 (9.8)| No | 62 (5.3) Brazil, Sao Paulo.......| No | 7 | 181 (0.2)| 271 (9.3)| No | 60 (4.6) China...................| Yes |6.5 or 7| 251 (2.1)| 305 (7.1)| Yes | 43 (6.3) England.................| Yes | 5 | 192 (1.8)| 300 (4.4)| Yes | 24 (8.3) Italy\9\ ...............| Yes | 6 | 204 (0.5)| 289 (5.0)| Yes | 18 (5.1) Mozambique, Maputo, | | | | | | and Beira .............| No | 7 | 193 (0.0)| 272 (0.0)| Yes | 92 (0.0) Portugal................| Yes | 6 | 172 (1.1)| 334 (6.5)| Yes | 56 (7.9) ________________________|_________|________|__________|___________|_______|______________ |
\1\90 percent of entire population from one ethnic group. NOTE.--Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, International Assessment of Educational Progress, "Learning Science" and "Learning Mathematics," by Educational Testing Service. (This table was prepared February 1992.) |