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Table 408. | Average science scores at the end of secondary school, by sex, average time spent studying science out of school, and country: 1995 |
Country | Average score in science | Amount of daily out-of-school study time in science | ||||||||||||||||||
Total | Male | Female | Less than 1 hour | 1 to 2 hours | 3 or more hours | Average hours1 | ||||||||||||||
Percent | Mean score | Percent | Mean score | Percent | Mean score | |||||||||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||||||||
Australia2 | 527 | (9.8) | 547 | (11.5) | 513 | (9.4) | 58 | (1.8) | 540 | (9.5) | 35 | (1.7) | 575 | (6.9) | 7 | (1.0) | 588 | (33.0) | 1.0 | (0.04) |
Austria2 | 520 | (5.6) | 554 | (8.7) | 501 | (5.8) | 87 | (1.4) | 529 | (6.0) | 11 | (1.4) | 526 | (13.8) | 1 | (0.3) | — | (†) | 0.4 | (0.03) |
Canada2 | 532 | (2.6) | 550 | (3.6) | 518 | (3.8) | 57 | (2.1) | 554 | (4.2) | 35 | (1.8) | 567 | (6.8) | 8 | (0.9) | 537 | (18.0) | 1.1 | (0.05) |
Cyprus2 | 448 | (3.0) | 459 | (5.8) | 439 | (3.0) | 80 | (1.1) | 436 | (3.7) | 16 | (0.9) | 483 | (10.7) | 4 | (0.6) | 552 | (11.8) | 0.5 | (0.03) |
Czech Republic | 487 | (8.8) | 512 | (8.8) | 460 | (11.0) | 84 | (2.6) | 520 | (11.6) | 14 | (2.3) | 571 | (11.5) | 3 | (0.5) | 583 | (13.6) | 0.5 | (0.05) |
Denmark2 | 509 | (3.6) | 532 | (5.4) | 490 | (4.1) | 73 | (1.8) | 555 | (4.7) | 25 | (1.6) | 570 | (6.1) | 3 | (0.6) | 565 | (15.0) | 0.7 | (0.03) |
France2 | 487 | (5.1) | 508 | (6.7) | 468 | (4.8) | 59 | (2.0) | 497 | (5.7) | 35 | (1.8) | 525 | (7.0) | 6 | (0.8) | 515 | (9.1) | 1.0 | (0.04) |
Germany2 | 497 | (5.1) | 514 | (7.9) | 478 | (8.5) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) |
Hungary | 471 | (3.0) | 484 | (4.2) | 455 | (4.3) | 67 | (1.2) | 475 | (3.9) | 27 | (0.9) | 486 | (4.9) | 6 | (0.6) | 497 | (11.5) | 0.9 | (0.03) |
Iceland2 | 549 | (1.5) | 572 | (2.7) | 530 | (2.1) | 87 | (1.0) | 566 | (2.5) | 12 | (1.0) | 575 | (4.6) | 1 | (0.3) | — | (†) | 0.4 | (0.01) |
Italy2 | 475 | (5.3) | 495 | (6.7) | 458 | (5.6) | 70 | (2.8) | 487 | (6.3) | 25 | (2.5) | 482 | (9.7) | 5 | (1.2) | 462 | (13.9) | 0.8 | (0.06) |
Lithuania2 | 461 | (5.7) | 481 | (6.4) | 450 | (7.3) | 69 | (1.5) | 465 | (5.5) | 26 | (1.3) | 469 | (6.5) | 5 | (0.6) | 470 | (11.4) | 0.8 | (0.03) |
Netherlands2 | 558 | (5.3) | 582 | (5.7) | 532 | (6.2) | 78 | (2.8) | 593 | (6.4) | 20 | (2.9) | 605 | (16.9) | 1 | (0.4) | — | (†) | 0.7 | (0.03) |
New Zealand | 529 | (5.2) | 543 | (7.1) | 515 | (5.2) | 80 | (1.1) | 551 | (6.3) | 18 | (1.1) | 581 | (6.6) | 3 | (0.5) | 553 | (15.3) | 0.6 | (0.02) |
Norway2 | 544 | (4.1) | 574 | (5.1) | 513 | (4.5) | 74 | (2.4) | 592 | (7.1) | 23 | (2.2) | 598 | (10.8) | 3 | (0.7) | 583 | (23.8) | 0.7 | (0.05) |
Russian Federation2 | 481 | (5.7) | 510 | (5.7) | 463 | (6.7) | 61 | (1.6) | 478 | (6.0) | 30 | (1.3) | 488 | (7.0) | 10 | (0.8) | 501 | (8.0) | 1.1 | (0.04) |
Slovenia2 | 517 | (8.2) | 541 | (12.7) | 494 | (6.4) | 85 | (2.0) | 528 | (8.1) | 13 | (1.9) | 548 | (8.9) | 2 | (0.6) | — | (†) | 0.5 | (0.04) |
South Africa2 | 349 | (10.5) | 367 | (11.5) | 333 | (13.0) | 47 | (1.6) | 373 | (15.5) | 35 | (1.3) | 367 | (12.2) | 18 | (1.4) | 326 | (7.3) | 1.5 | (0.05) |
Sweden | 559 | (4.4) | 585 | (5.9) | 534 | (3.5) | 81 | (1.9) | 599 | (7.4) | 17 | (1.8) | 632 | (10.1) | 2 | (0.5) | — | (†) | 0.6 | (0.03) |
Switzerland | 523 | (5.3) | 540 | (6.1) | 500 | (7.8) | 76 | (2.3) | 564 | (6.6) | 21 | (2.3) | 564 | (10.9) | 3 | (0.9) | 508 | (29.0) | 0.7 | (0.04) |
United States2 | 480 | (3.3) | 492 | (4.5) | 469 | (3.9) | 76 | (2.1) | 505 | (4.3) | 21 | (2.1) | 517 | (5.7) | 2 | (0.4) | — | (†) | 0.7 | (0.04) |
—Not available. †Not applicable. 1 Average hours based on: No time = 0; Less than 1 hour = 5; 1–2 hours = 1.5; 3–5 hours = 4; More than 5 hours = 7. 2 Country did not meet all International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement sampling specifications. NOTE: End of secondary school is equivalent to 12th grade in the United States and a few other countries, but ranges from 9th to 14th grade among the survey countries. Possible scores range from 1 to 1000. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 1995, Mathematics and Science Achievement in the Final Year of Secondary School, by Ina V. S. Mullis et al. (This table was prepared October 1998.) |