Education Index
Education Index
Education Index
Education Index
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World map indicating Education Index based on the 2009 UN HDR 0.950 and over 0.7000.749 0.4500.499 0.9000.949 0.6500.699 0.4000.449 0.8500.899 0.6000.649 0.3500.399 0.8000.849 0.5500.599 under 0.350 0.7500.799 0.5000.549 not available This article contains information based on the pre-2010 Human Development Reports. The HDI and its education component have changed in 2010. The United Nations publishes a Human Development Index every year, which consists of the Education index, GDP Index and Life Expectancy Index. These three components measure the educational attainment, GDP per capita and life expectancy respectively. The Education Index is measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrollment ratio (with one-third weighting). The adult literacy rate gives an indication of the ability to read and write, while the GER gives an indication of the level of education from nursery (UK & others)/kindergarten (USA & others) to post-graduate education. Education is a major component of well-being and is used in the measure of economic development and quality of life, which is a key factor determining whether a country is a developed, developing, or underdeveloped country.
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Ranking
Change in value from the last report is given as follows:
The latest index was released in the Human Development Report in October 2009.[1][dead link] This statistical update covers the period up to 2007: 1 is the highest possible theoretical score, indicating perfect education attainment. All countries considered to be developed countries possess a minimum score of 0.8 or above, although the great majority have a score of 0.9 or above. For ranking based on the Human Development Index, see List of countries by Human Development Index. Rank
Change 2007 compared data to 2006 data
Rank Country
Education index
Change 2007 compared data to 2006 data
Change Change 2007 compared 2007 compared data to 2006 data to 2006 data data
1 1 1 1 1 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
(2) (20) (8) (1)
Australia Finland Denmark New Zealand Cuba Canada Norway Republic of Korea Ireland Netherlands Greece Iceland France
0.993 0.993 0.993 0.993 0.993 0.991 0.989 0.988 0.985 0.985 0.981 0.980 0.978 0.017
(13) (5) (9) (3) (1) (1) (2) (5) (5) (1) (3)
Jordan Fiji Ecuador Trinidad and Tobago Lebanon Malaysia China Suriname Dominica
0.870 0.868 0.866 0.861 0.857 0.851 0.851 0.850 0.848 0.843
0.010 0.011
0.012 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.005 0.003 0.006 0.003 0.002 0.010
(2) (4)
Gabon South 0.843 Africa Indonesia 0.840 Mauritius 0.839 Dominican 0.839 Republic United 0.838 Arab Emirates
(1)
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
Sweden Belgium Slovenia United States Lithuania Italy Kazakhstan Estonia Austria Latvia Belarus Hungary Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay Germany Poland Japan
0.974 0.974 0.969 0.968 0.968 0.965 0.965 0.964 0.962 0.961 0.961 0.960 0.960 0.957 0.955 0.954 0.952 0.949
N/A
106 107 108 109 110 0.001 111 112 0.003 113 114 0.004 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 0.002 0.035 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139
(2) (4)
(4)
(3)
(2) (4) (1) (1) (4) (1) (1) (2) (5) (5)
(2) (1) (1) (1) (1) N/A (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (1) (3) (23) (3) (2) (4) (3) (3)
Liechtenstein 0.949 0.947 Israel Argentina 0.946 Antigua 0.945 and Barbuda Guyana 0.939 Czech 0.938 Republic Switzerland Russia Bulgaria Portugal Slovakia Venezuela Tonga Chile Kyrgyzstan Croatia Romania 0.936 0.933 0.930 0.929 0.928 0.921 0.920 0.919 0.918 0.916 0.915
(5) (1) (1) (7) (1) (1) (2) (2) (2) (7) (3) (2) (4) (3)
Jamaica Sri Lanka Saudi Arabia Turkey Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sao Tome and Principe Namibia Vietnam Honduras El Salvador Iran Oman Botswana Equatorial Guinea Myanmar Cape Verde Syria Tunisia Belize Nicaragua Lesotho Algeria Congo Swaziland Vanuatu Guatemala Cambodia Uganda Egypt Kenya Malawi Laos Zambia Solomon
0.813 0.811 0.810 0.806 0.798 0.793 0.790 0.788 0.787 0.787 0.786 0.773 0.772 0.762 0.760 0.753 0.748 0.736 0.731 0.729 0.723 0.704 0.698 0.697 0.690 0.685 0.683 0.682 0.676
0.001 0.006 0.004 0.014 0.005 0.033 0.006 0.014 0.004 0.006 0.034 0.006 0.001 0.018
52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
0.070 140 0.001 141 142 0.001 143 144 0.001 145 0.004 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 0.006 154 155 156 0.001 157 0.002 158 0.001 159 0.002 160 0.007 161 0.007 162 163 0.002 0.001 164 165 166 0.001 0.005 167 168 0.001 169 170
(2) (18) (2) (6) (3) (3) (2) (3)
Islands Madagascar Tanzania Angola Nigeria Comoros India Cameroon Ghana Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda Haiti Nepal Morocco Yemen Liberia Burundi Djibouti GuineaBissau Mauritania Sudan Eritrea Togo Bhutan Bangladesh Papua New Guinea Pakistan Mozambique Cte d'Ivoire Benin Gambia Central African Republic 0.676 0.673 0.667 0.657 0.655 0.643 0.627 0.627 0.608 0.607 0.588 0.579 0.574 0.579 0.562 0.559 0.554 0.545 0.552 0.539 0.539 0.534 0.533 0.530 0.521 0.492 0.478 0.450 0.445 0.439 0.419 0.005 0.004 0.005 0.012 0.132 0.009 0.004 0.005 0.005 0.017 0.049
Turkmenistan 0.906 Samoa 0.905 Moldova 0.899 Libya 0.898 Saint Kitts 0.896 and Nevis Tajikistan 0.896 Bahrain 0.893 0.892 Bolivia Brunei 0.891 0.891 0.891 0.891 0.891 0.889 0.888 0.888 0.888 0.888 0.888 0.887 0.886 0.886 0.886 0.886 0.885 0.884 0.883 0.881 0.881 0.880 0.879
(2)
0.003 0.007
0.010 0.002 0.012 0.045 0.005 0.004 0.011 0.003 0.025 0.009 0.020 0.006 0.002
Montenegro (4) Serbia (2) Brazil (4) Peru Saint (12) Lucia N/A Qatar (5) Panama (2) Thailand
(6) (10)
N/A
Philippines
(1) (2) (5) (9) (2) (2) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1)
Uzbekistan (5) Malta (6) Mexico (9) Seychelles (10) Albania Palestinian (3) Authority (5) Maldives (7) Grenada (5) Costa Rica (3) Colombia (3) Azerbaijan Republic (2) of Macedonia Hong (5) Kong
87 88 89 90 91
N/A
(1)
Senegal Ethiopia Sierra Leone Guinea Afghanistan Chad Mali Burkina Faso Niger
0.013 0.006
N/A
See also
References
1. ^ http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/93.html
Contents
1 Positively ranked countries 2 Negatively ranked countries 3 See also 4 References 5 External links
Rank 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 -44 --
Country Hong Kong Ireland Japan United States Sweden Netherlands Denmark Luxembourg Israel Canada United Kingdom Austria Norway France Spain China Malaysia Australia Estonia Belgium Germany New Zealand Cyprus Portugal Qatar Hungary Malta Slovenia Czech Republic South Africa Bahrain Chile Italy Slovakia Tunisia Greece Latvia Lithuania India Thailand
Overall Innovation Inputs Innovation Performance 1.82 1.77 1.85 1.81 1.78 1.84 1.80 1.28 2.25 1.66 1.16 2.16 1.56 1.25 1.88 1.54 1.40 1.55 1.52 1.55 1.49 1.52 1.02 2.03 1.44 1.34 1.43 1.36 1.39 1.32 1.35 1.33 1.37 1.16 1.16 1.12 1.15 1.16 1.11 1.06 1.17 0.96 1.03 1.02 1.03 1.03 0.06 1.96 0.96 0.89 1.01 0.93 0.89 1.05 0.91 1.50 0.25 0.86 0.85 0.79 0.81 0.79 0.84 0.77 0.79 0.69 0.63 0.64 0.56 0.60 0.92 0.22 0.52 1.02 0.02 0.51 0.80 0.18 0.39 0.24 0.54 0.37 0.47 0.24 0.34 0.88 -0.10 0.33 0.15 0.47 0.27 0.78 -0.26 0.24 0.36 0.04 0.21 0.16 0.24 0.19 0.72 -0.31 0.16 0.64 -0.32 0.12 0.02 0.22 0.11 0.36 -0.12 0.11 0.64 -0.40 0.09 0.12 0.04 0.09 -0.24 0.36
Rank 46 47 48 49
Country Overall Innovation Inputs Innovation Performance Kuwait 0.08 0.64 -0.36 Croatia 0.06 0.32 -0.21 Trinidad and Tobago 0.05 -0.24 0.36 Bulgaria 0.04 0.48 -0.36
Rank 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110
Country Overall Innovation Inputs Innovation Performance Moldova -0.80 -0.24 -1.28 -0.82 -1.04 -0.51 Pakistan -0.83 -0.87 -0.70 Algeria Paraguay -0.89 -0.63 -1.07 Mongolia -0.90 -0.71 -1.01 Nigeria -0.95 -0.91 -0.90 Uruguay -0.95 -0.76 -1.06 -0.96 -1.05 -0.78 Uganda -0.59 Burkina Faso -0.97 -1.25 Argentina -0.97 -0.96 -0.90 Tajikistan -0.99 -1.04 -0.86 Guatemala -0.99 -0.94 -0.96 -1.01 -0.91 -1.02 Kenya -1.02 -1.08 -0.87 Bolivia Syria -1.03 -0.99 -0.98 Nepal Peru Senegal Namibia Ecuador Madagascar Nicaragua Zambia Benin Cameroon Venezuela Burundi Zimbabwe -1.05 -1.06 -1.06 -1.07 -1.11 -1.16 -1.18 -1.28 -1.28 -1.32 -1.37 -1.54 -1.63 -1.23 -1.18 -1.11 -1.12 -1.21 -1.15 -1.22 -1.40 -1.55 -1.77 -1.50 -1.82 -1.63 -0.77 -0.85 -0.91 -0.92 -0.91 -1.06 -1.02 -1.03 -0.89 -0.74 -1.10 -1.22 -1.48
See also
Global Innovation Index (INSEAD) Creative destruction Creative problem solving Theories of technology Diffusion (anthropology) Ecoinnovation Emerging technologies List of emerging technologies Hype cycle Individual capital Induced innovation
Information revolution Ingenuity Invention Innovation Innovation economics Innovation saturation Knowledge economy Open innovation Patent Public domain Research Timeline of historic inventions Toolkits for User Innovation User innovation Value network
References
1. ^ America Ranks #8 In New Global Innovation Index 2. ^ U.S. Ranks #8 In Global Innovation Index
External links
World map indicating literacy by country (2011 Human Development Report) Grey = no data List of countries by literacy rate, as included in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report 2011.[3][4] The figures from the report represent a mixture of data collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, national self-reported data, and the UNDP's global projection models. Where data was unavailable older figures were used. For highly developed/high income countries where literacy statistics were not collected, a rate of 99% was assumed.[1]
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List
# Rank 1 2 3 1 2 3 Georgia Cuba Estonia Country Literacy rate
[b]
# Rank 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Country Latvia Barbados Slovenia Belarus Lithuania Ukraine Armenia Kazakhstan Tajikistan Azerbaijan Turkmenistan Russia Hungary Kyrgyzstan Poland Tonga Albania Antigua and Barbuda Australia Austria Belgium Canada Czech Republic Bosnia and Herzegovina Denmark Finland France Germany Guyana Iceland Ireland Japan South Korea Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Slovakia Sweden
Literacy rate
[b]
99.8 99.7 [j] 99.7 [l] 99.7 99.7 99.7 99.7 99.6 99.6 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.4 [j] 99.3 99.3 [j] 99.2 99.1 99.0 [q] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [j] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] 99.0 [d]
Country
Literacy rate
[b]
99.0 [d] 99.0 [d] Puerto Rico See also: Literacy in the United 99.0 [d] 98.9 98.8 [l] 98.8 98.8 [l] 98.8 98.8 97.7 97.7 97.7 97.7 97.7 97.7 97.7 97.5 97.2 97.1 [k] 97.1 97.0 96.9 [j] 96.5 96.1 96.0 [q] 95.9 [k] 95.8 [j] 95.7 95.2 94.9 [l] 94.8 [q] 94.7 94.7 94.6 [j] 94.6 [p] 94.6 [l] 94.5 94.4 [j]
Italy Samoa Croatia Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Bulgaria Spain Cyprus Libya Serbia Saint Kitts and Nevis Romania Argentina Mongolia Greece Israel Macedonia Maldives Uzbekistan Chile Costa Rica Grenada China Bahamas Philippines Venezuela Portugal Saint Lucia Qatar Singapore Hong Kong Palestinian Authority Paraguay Kuwait Fiji
# Rank 81 32 82 33 83 33 84 35 85 36 86 36 87 37 88 38 89 39 90 40 91 41 92 42 93 42 94 44 95 44 96 45 97 46 98 47 99 47 100 48 101 49 102 50 103 50 104 50 105 51 106 52 107 53 108 54 109 55 110 56 111 57 112 58 113 58 114 59 115 60 116 61 117 62 118 63 119 64
Country Sri Lanka Thailand Turkey Panama Brunei Mexico Suriname Colombia Vietnam Malaysia Malta Indonesia Myanmar Zimbabwe Seychelles Bahrain Jordan Ecuador Iran Bolivia Equatorial Guinea Lebanon United Arab Emirates Brazil Lesotho Peru Dominican Republic Tunisia Sao Tome and Principe Namibia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Dominica South Africa Syria Gabon Mauritius Swaziland Jamaica Saudi Arabia
Literacy rate
[b]
94.2 [w] 94.1 94.1[2] 93.6 93.4 93.4 93.3 93.2 92.8 92.5 92.4 92.0 92.0 91.9 [l] 91.8 91.4 91.1 91.0 91.0[3] 90.7 90.4 90.0[4] 90.0 [l] 90.0 89.7 89.6 89.1 88.9 88.8 88.5 88.1 [q] 88.0 [q] 88.0 87.9 87.7 87.0 86.9 86.4 86.1
# Rank 120 65 121 66 122 66 123 67 124 67 125 68 126 69 127 70 128 71 129 72 130 74 131 75 132 76 133 77 134 78 135 79 136 80 137 78 138 82 139 83 140 84 141 85 142 86 143 87 144 88 145 88 146 89 147 90 148 91 149 92 150 93 151 94 152 95 153 96 154 96 155 96 156 97 157 98 158 99 Cape Verde Kenya Ecuador North Korea El Salvador Honduras Oman Republic of the Congo Vanuatu Iraq Nicaragua Botswana Solomon Islands Cambodia Algeria Belize Guatemala India Comoros Malawi Uganda Tanzania Ghana Zambia Madagascar Rwanda Djibouti Sudan Angola Laos Nepal Cameroon
Country
Literacy rate
[b]
84.8 [l] 84.2 84.2 84.1 84.1 83.6 89.4 81.1 [l] 80.2 78.1 78.0 77.7 76.6 [k] 76.3 75.4 75.1 [q] 74.5 75.6[5] 74.2 73.7 73.3 72.9 72.0* [l] 70.9 70.7 70.7 70.3 [j] 70.2 [aa] 70.0 68.7 68.2 67.9 66.8 66.6 66.6 66.6 66.4 62.4 [l] 62.1 [j]
Democratic Republic of the Congo Eritrea Nigeria Burundi Egypt Yemen Haiti
# Rank 159 100 160 101 161 102 162 103 163 104 164 105 165 106 166 107 167 108 168 109 169 110 170 111 171 112 172 113 173 114 174 115 175 116 176 117 177 118 178 119 179 120 180 120 181 121 182 122 183 123 Morocco
Country
Literacy rate
[b]
Papua New Guinea Pakistan Mauritania Bangladesh Cte d'Ivoire Central African Republic Mozambique Togo Bhutan Guinea-Bissau Timor-Leste Senegal Gambia Benin Sierra Leone Guinea Afghanistan Somalia Chad Burkina Faso Niger Ethiopia South Sudan Mali
61.5 [6] [7] 60.1 58.2 57.5 55.9 55.3 55.2 55.1 53.2 52.8 [v] 52.2 50.1 [ab] 49.7 46.5 [j] 41.7 40.9 39.5 37.8 35.9 [8] 33.6 28.7 28.7 28.0 27.0 26.2
See also
Notes
^ United Nations Development Program [5] ^ Tables can be found UNDP.org ^b 0 Data refer to national literacy estimates from censuses or surveys conducted between 1995 and 2005, unless otherwise specified. Due to differences in methodology and timeliness of underlying data, comparisons across countries and over time should be made with caution. For more details, see Unesco.org. ^d 1 For purposes of calculating the HDI, a value of 99.0% was applied.
^v 2 UNICEF 2004. ^l 3 UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates based on its Global Age-specific Literacy Projections model, April 2007. ^j 4 In the absence of recent data, estimates from UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2003, based on outdated census or survey information, were used and should be interpreted with caution: Bahamas 95.8, Barbados 90.7, Comoros 56.8, Djibouti 70.3, Eritrea 67.5, Fiji 94.4, Gambia 42.5, Guinea-Bissau 11.00, Guyana 99.0, Haiti 54.8, Hong Kong, China (SAR) 94.6, Hungary 99.4, Lebanon 88.3, Poland 99.8 and Uzbekistan 80.4. Note that the 1991 census in Comoros indicates a literacy rate of 91% for the three independent islands. ^k 5 Data are from national sources. ^q 6 Data are from the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community, based on national sources. ^w 7 www.moe.gov.lk ^aa 8 Data refer to North Sudan only. ^ab 9 UNDP 2007. ^p 10 Calculation made based on literacy rates of 92.7% for the West Bank and 94.3% for the Gaza Strip[9] and relative population sizes of 62.3% in West Bank and 37.7% in Gaza Strip[10] The Holy See (Vatican City) not listed
References
^ United Nations Development Programme Report 2011.[1][2] ^ Turkish Statistical Institute, 2011 ^ http://hamshahrionline.ir/news-154929.aspx ^ http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/lebanon_statistics.html ^ Census of India 2011 http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-provresults/indiaatglance.html 6. ^ http://www.aujourdhui.ma/societe-details54010.html 7. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Morocco#Literacy 8. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/so.html 9. ^ "Literacy Rate in Palestinian Territories - 2007 Census", Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2009. Retrieved on 2011-01-11. 10. ^ "The Population, Housing and Establishment Census - 2007, Press Conference on the Preliminary Findings, (Population, Buildings, Housing Units and Establishments)", Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Ramallah, February 2008. Retrieved on 2011-01-11. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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1 Top 20 countries in 2010 2 Top 10 countries in 2007 3 See also 4 References 5 External links
Ran k 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
No. of Patent Ran Country Country Application k s 1 Japan 502,054 Japan United United 400,769 2 States States China 203,481 South 3 Korea South 172,342 Korea 4 Germany 135,748 Germany 5 China 6 France 47,597 France United 7 Russia 42,296 Kingdom 8 Italy Russia 29,176 United 9 Kingdom 26,640 Switzerlan 10 d Switzerlan
No. of Ran Patents Country k Grante d United 1 239,338 States 146,871 2 79,652 53,752 48,814 25,535 22,870 12,789 12,162 11,291 5 6 7 8 9 3 4 Japan China South Korea United Kingdom Germany France
d 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Netherland s Italy Canada Sweden Australia Finland Israel Spain 25,927 11 21,911 21,330 17,051 11,230 10,133 9,877 8,277 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Netherland s Canada Sweden Finland Australia Spain Belgium Israel 11,103 8,188 7,453 4,675 4,386 3,636 2,948 2,665
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
166,079 Spain Russia 147,067 Canada 121,889 107,708 Australia Sweden 105,571 87,189 Belgium (2003) Ireland 78,761 Mexico 73,076 Monaco 50,392 Luxembour 49,947 g Finland 47,070
Change in value from the last report is given as follows: = increase. = steady. = decrease. Resident filings Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Country Japan United States South Korea China Germany Russia United Kingdom France Australia India Non-resident filings % % Rank Country Change Change United -0.1 1 6.3 States 9.7 2 11.4 Japan 3 Germany 6.0 16.1 South 4 27.3 Korea 42.1 5 France 8.1 -0.2 6 12.7 Netherlands 2.9 United 7 7.7 -7.0 Kingdom -1.7 1.1 -8.0 8 9 10 Switzerland Canada Italy 15.6 3.3 7.4
Top 10 countries of filing % Rank Country Change 1 0.9 Japan United 2 9.5 States 3 32.9 China South 4 14.8 Korea 5 6 7 8 9 10 Germany Canada Russia Australia United Kingdom India 1.7 1.5 6.8 3.3 -6.6 1.3
Resident filings per GDP Resident filings per million % population Rank Country Change
Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Country Japan South Korea United States Germany Australia New Zealand Finland Denmark United Kingdom Sweden
South Korea Japan Germany New Zealand United States Russia Australia Finland China
Rank Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 South Korea Japan New Zealand Russia Ukraine Australia China
Germany 0.91 Poland 0.77 9 -7.5 10 -14.3 9 Denmark United 10 0.72 10 -9.2 States Number of patents granted Patents in force Rank Country No. of Patents Rank Country No. of Patents 1 United States 197,019 1 1,613,776 Japan 2 185,827 Japan 2 United States 1,214,556 3 South Korea 63,865 3 353,251 South Korea 4 Germany 48,700 4 Germany 245,403 5 22,413 5 172,912 France France 6 21,519 China 6 Russia 99,819 7 19,948 7 United Kingdom 79,855 Russia 8 United Kingdom 13,304 8 59,087 China 9 Canada 55,977 9 8,583 Switzerland 10 52,754 10 8,416 Switzerland Netherlands
See also
Patent
References
1. ^ http://www.cetraonline.it/file_doc/285/wipo_pub_931.pdf 2. ^ http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/
Purpose/focus
Headquarters Location Region served Membership Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division
Main organ
Parent organization
Website
PISA
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and nonmember nations of 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading. It was first performed in 2000 and then repeated every three years. It is done with view to improving educational policies and outcomes. The data have increasingly been used both to assess the impact of educational quality on incomes and growth and to understand what causes differences in achievement across nations.[1] 470,000 15-years-old students representing 65 nations and territories participated in PISA 2009. An additional 50,000 students representing 9 nations were tested in 2010.[2] The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement are similar studies.
Contents
1 Framework 2 Development and implementation 3 Method of testing o 3.1 Sampling o 3.2 The test o 3.3 National add-ons o 3.4 Data Scaling 4 Results o 4.1 Historical tables 4.1.1 20002006 4.1.2 2006 4.1.3 2009 o 4.2 Pisa 2009+ 4.2.1 Reaction in India o 4.3 Comparison with other studies o 4.4 Topical studies 5 Reception 6 Research on causes of country differences 7 Criticism o 7.1 United States o 7.2 Performance of U.S. states in international comparisons o 7.3 China o 7.4 Portugal 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading o 10.1 Official websites and reports o 10.2 About reception and political consequences o 10.3 Criticism 11 External links
Framework
PISA stands in a tradition of international school studies, undertaken since the late 1950s by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). Much of PISA's methodology follows the example of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS, started in 1995), which in turn was much influenced by the U.S. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The reading component of PISA is inspired by the IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). PISA aims at testing literacy in three competence fields: reading, mathematics, science. The PISA mathematics literacy test asks students to apply their mathematical knowledge to solve problems set in various real-world contexts. To solve the problems students must activate a number of mathematical competencies as well as a broad range of mathematical content knowledge. TIMSS, on the other hand, measures more traditional classroom content such as an understanding of fractions and decimals and the relationship between them (curriculum attainment). PISA claims to measure education's application to real-life problems and life-long learning (workforce knowledge). In the reading test, "OECD/PISA does not measure the extent to which 15-year-old students are fluent readers or how competent they are at word recognition tasks or spelling". Instead, they should be able to "construct, extend and reflect on the meaning of what they have read across a wide range of continuous and non-continuous texts"[3]
2000
Reading
28
The Netherlands disqualified from data 265,000 analysis. 11 additional non-OECD countries took the test in 2002 275,000 UK disqualified from data analysis. Also
2003
Mathematics 30
11
included test in problem solving. 2006 2009 Science Reading 30 34 27 33? Results made available on 7 December 2010 [4]
PISA is sponsored, governed, and coordinated by the OECD. The test design, implementation, and data analysis is delegated to an international consortium of research and educational institutions led by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). ACER leads in developing and implementing sampling procedures and assisting with monitoring sampling outcomes across these countries. The assessment instruments fundamental to PISA's Reading, Mathematics, Science, Problem-solving, Computer-based testing, background and contextual questionnaires are similarly constructed and refined by ACER. ACER also develops purpose-built software to assist in sampling and data capture, and analyses all data. The source code of the data analysis software is not made public.
Method of testing
Sampling
The students tested by PISA are aged between 15 years and 3 months and 16 years and 2 months at the beginning of the assessment period. The school year pupils are in is not taken into consideration. Only students at school are tested, not home-schoolers. In PISA 2006, however, several countries also used a grade-based sample of students. This made it possible also to study how age and school year interact. To fulfill OECD requirements, each country must draw a sample of at least 5,000 students. In small countries like Iceland and Luxembourg, where there are less than 5,000 students per year, an entire age cohort is tested. Some countries used much larger samples than required to allow comparisons between regions.
The test
PISA test documents on a school table (Neues Gymnasium, Oldenburg, Germany, 2006)
Each student takes a two-hour handwritten test. Part of the test is multiple-choice and part involves fuller answers. In total there are six and a half hours of assessment material, but each student is not tested on all the parts. Following the cognitive test, participating students spend nearly one more hour answering a questionnaire on their background including learning habits, motivation and family. School directors also fill in a questionnaire describing school demographics, funding etc. In selected countries, PISA started also experimentation with computer adaptive testing.
National add-ons
Countries are allowed to combine PISA with complementary national tests. Germany does this in a very extensive way: on the day following the international test, students take a national test called PISA-E (E=Ergnzung=complement). Test items of PISAE are closer to TIMSS than to PISA. While only about 5,000 German students participate in both the international and the national test, another 45,000 take only the latter. This large sample is needed to allow an analysis by federal states. Following a clash about the interpretation of 2006 results, the OECD warned Germany that it might withdraw the right to use the "PISA" label for national tests.[5]
Data Scaling
From the beginning, PISA has been designed with one particular method of data analysis in mind. Since students work on different test booklets, raw scores must be scaled to allow meaningful comparisons. This scaling is done using the Rasch model of item response theory (IRT). According to IRT, it is not possible to assess the competence of students who solved none or all of the test items. This problem is circumvented by imposing a Gaussian prior probability distribution of competences.[6] One and the same scale is used to express item difficulties and student competences. The scaling procedure is tuned such that the a posteriori distribution of student competences, with equal weight given to all OECD countries, has mean 500 and standard deviation 100.
Results
The official reports only contain domain-specific scores and do not combine the different domains into an overall score. The final scoring is adjusted so that the OECD average in each domain is 500 and the standard deviation is 100.[7]
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All PISA results are broken down by countries. Public attention concentrates on just one outcome: achievement mean values by countries. These data are regularly published in form of "league tables".[citation needed]
The following table gives the mean achievements of OECD member countries in the principal testing domain of each period:[8] In the official reports, country rankings are communicated in a more elaborate form: not as lists, but as cross tables, indicating for each pair of countries whether or not mean score differences are statistically significant (unlikely to be due to random fluctuations in student sampling or in item functioning). In favorable cases, a difference of 9 points is sufficient to be considered significant.[citation needed] In some popular media, test results from all three literacy domains have been consolidated in an overall country ranking. Such meta-analysis is not endorsed by the OECD. The official reports only contain domain-specific country scores. In part of the official reports, however, scores from a period's principal testing domain are used as proxy for overall student ability.[9]
20002006
Top results for the main areas of investigation of PISA, in 2000, 2003 and 2006.
2000[3] Reading literacy 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Finland Canada New Zealand Australia Ireland South Korea United Kingdom Japan Sweden Austria Belgium Iceland Norway 546 1. 534 2. 529 3. 528 4. 527 5. 525 6. 523 7. 522 516 507 507 507 505 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 2003 Mathematics Finland South Korea Netherlands Japan Canada Belgium Switzerland Australia New Zealand Czech Republic Iceland Denmark 544 1. 542 2. 538 3. 534 4. 532 5. 529 6. 527 7. 524 8. 523 9. 516 10. 515 11. 514 12. 13. 2006 Science Finland Canada Japan New Zealand Australia Netherlands South Korea Germany United Kingdom Czech Republic Switzerland Austria Belgium 563 534 531 530 527 525 522 516 515 513 512 511 510
14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
France United States Denmark Switzerland Spain Czech Republic Italy Germany Hungary Poland Greece Portugal Luxembourg Russia Latvia Mexico Brazil
505 13. 504 14. 497 15. 494 16. 493 492 487 484 480 479 474 470 441 462 458 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.
France Sweden Austria Germany Ireland Slovakia Norway Luxembourg Poland Hungary Spain United States Italy Portugal Greece Turkey Mexico
511 14. 503 15. 506 16. 503 17. 503 18. 498 19. 495 20. 493 21. 490 22. 490 23. 485 24. 483 25. 466 26. 466 27. 445 28. 423 29. 385 30.
Ireland Hungary Sweden Poland Denmark France Iceland United States Slovakia Spain Norway Luxembourg Italy Portugal Greece Turkey Mexico
508 504 503 498 496 495 491 489 488 488 487 486 475 474 473 424 410
2006
Top 10 countries for Pisa 2006 results in Math, Sciences and Reading.
Programme for International Student Assessment (2006) (OECD member countries in boldface) Maths Sciences Reading
1. 2. 3. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 8. 10.
South Korea 556 Finland Hong Kong Canada 547 536 527
South Korea 547 4. Netherlands 531 5. Switzerland Canada Macau 530 5. 527 7. 525 8.
2009
Top 30 countries for Pisa 2009 results in Maths, Sciences and Reading. For a complete list, see [4].
Programme for International Student Assessment (2009) (OECD members as of the time of the study in boldface) For complete list, see [5] Maths Sciences
[10]
Reading
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
600 1. 562 2.
575 1. 554 2.
Hong Kong, China 555 3. South Korea Taiwan Finland Liechtenstein 546 4. 543 5. 541 6. 536 7.
Hong Kong, China 549 3. Singapore Japan South Korea New Zealand 542 4. 539 5. 538 6. 532 7.
Hong Kong, China 533 Singapore Canada New Zealand 526 524 521
8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Switzerland Japan Canada Netherlands Macau, China New Zealand Belgium Australia Germany Estonia Iceland Denmark Slovenia Norway France Slovakia Austria Poland Sweden Czech Republic
534 8. 529 9. 527 10. 526 11. 525 519 515 12. 13. 14.
529 8. 528 9. 527 10. 522 11. 520 12. 520 13. 520 14. 517 15.
Japan Australia Netherlands Belgium Norway Estonia Switzerland Poland Iceland United States Liechtenstein Sweden Germany Ireland France Taiwan Denmark
520 515 508 506 503 501 501 500 500 500 499 497 497 496 496 495 495
514 15. 513 16. 512 17. 507 18. 503 19. 501 20. 498 21. 497 497 496 495 22. 23. 24. 25.
United Kingdom 514 16. Slovenia Macau, China Poland Ireland Belgium Hungary United States Norway Czech Republic Denmark France Iceland Sweden Latvia 512 17. 511 18. 508 19. 508 20. 507 21. 503 22. 502 23. 500 24. 500 25. 499 26. 498 27. 496 28. 495 29. 494 30.
United Kingdom 494 Hungary Portugal Macau, China Italy Latvia 494 489 487 486 484
United Kingdom 492 28. Hungary United States 490 29. 487 30.
: 65. Kyrgyzstan
PISA 2009 mathematics results. Dark blue nations scored statistically significantly above the OECD average. Intermediate blue nations not statistically significantly different from the OECD average. Light blue nations statistically significantly below the OECD average. For some nations (China, India, Venezuela) only students from limited areas were tested as indicated in the map.
Pisa 2009+
An additional group of ten economies were tested in 2010 after the main group of 65.[11] These were (with mean maths, sciences, and reading scores):
Costa Rica 409,430,443 Georgia 379,373,374 India-Himachal Pradesh 338,325,317 India-Tamil Nadu 351,348,337 Malaysia 404,422,414 Malta 463,461,442 Mauritius 420,417,407 Miranda-Venezuela 397,422,422 Moldova 397,413,388 The United Arab Emirates 421,438,431
Reaction in India
Of the 74 countries tested in the PISA 2009 cycle including the "+" nations, the two Indian states came up 72nd and 73d out of 74 in both reading and maths. The two Indian states were 73rd and 74th in science. This poor result has focused media attention in India on its poor educational system.[12] The BBC reported that as of 2008, only the top 15% of India's students reach high school.[13] The Times of India described Tamil Nadu and Himachal as "showpieces of India's education and development", yet still with score that are the worst in the world.[14]
The correlation between PISA 2003 and TIMSS 2003 grade 8 country means is 0.84 in mathematics, 0.95 in science. The values go down to 0.66 and 0.79 if the two worst performing developing countries are excluded. Correlations between different scales and studies are around 0.80. The high correlations between different scales and studies indicate common causes of country differences (e.g. educational quality, culture, wealth or genes) or a homogenous underlying factor of cognitive competence. Western countries perform slightly better in PISA; Eastern European and Asian countries in TIMSS. Content balance and years of schooling explain most of the variation.[15]
Topical studies
An evaluation of the 2003 results showed that countries that spent more on education did not necessarily do better. Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and the Netherlands spent less but did relatively well, whereas the United States spent much more but was below the OECD average. The Czech Republic, in the top ten, spent only one third as much per student as the United States did, for example, but the USA came 24th out of 29 countries compared.[citation needed] Another point made in the evaluation was that students with higher-earning parents are better-educated and tend to achieve higher results. This was true in all the countries tested, although more obvious in certain countries, such as Germany.[citation needed] It has been suggested that the Finnish language plays an important part in Finland's PISA success.[16] International testing, including both PISA and TIMSS, has been a central part of many recent analyses of how cognitive skills relate to economic outcomes. These studies consider both individual earnings and aggregate growth differences of nations.[17] In 2010, the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results revealed that Shanghai students scored the highest in the world in every category (Math, Reading and Science). The OECD described Shanghai as a pioneer of educational reform, noting that "there has been a sea change in pedagogy". OECD point out that they "abandoned their focus on educating a small elite, and instead worked to construct a more inclusive system. They also significantly increased teacher pay and training, reducing the emphasis on rote learning and focusing classroom activities on problem solving."[18] According to the Financial Times[19]: The OECD noted that even in rural China results approached average levels for the OECD countries:"Citing further, as-yet unpublished OECD research, Mr Schleicher said: We have actually done Pisa in 12 of the provinces in China. Even in some of the very poor areas you get performance close to the OECD average.[20] For a developing country, Chinas 99.4% enrolment in primary education is already, as the OECD puts it, the envy of many countries while junior secondary school participation rates in China are now 99%. But in Shanghai not only has senior secondary school enrolment attained 98% but admissions into higher education have achieved 80% of the relevant age group. That this growth reflects quality, not just quantity, is confirmed clearly by the OECDs ranking of Shanghais secondary education as world number one.[21]According to OECD, China has also expanded school access, and moved away from learning by rote. The last
point is key: Russia performs well in rote-based assessments, but not in Pisa, says Schleicher, head of the indicators and analysis division at the OECDs directorate for education. China does well in both rote-based and broader assessments.[22]
Reception
For many countries, the first PISA results were surprising. In Germany and the United States, for example, the comparatively low scores brought on heated debate about how the school system should be changed.[citation needed] Some headlines in national newspapers, for example, were:
"La France, lve moyen de la classe OCDE" (France, average student of the OECD class) Le Monde, December 5, 2001 "Miserable Noten fr deutsche Schler" (Abysmal marks for German students) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 4, 2001 "Are we not such dunces after all?" The Times, United Kingdom, December 6, 2001 "Economic Time Bomb: U.S. Teens Are Among Worst at Math" Wall Street Journal December 7, 2004 "Preocupe-se. Seu filho mal educado." (Be worried. Your child is badly educated.) Veja November 7, 2007 "La educacin espaola retrocede" (Spanish education moving backwards) El Pas December 5, 2007 "Finnish teens score high marks in latest PISA study" Helsingin Sanomat November 30, 2007
The results from PISA 2003 and PISA 2006 were featured in the 2010 documentary Waiting for "Superman".[23]
Heiner Rindermann and Stephen Ceci in a review state that studies have found that student achievement is related to many outcomes important to society such as democratization, health, and productivity. Thus, reducing the gap between nations in student achievement may also reduce the gap between nations on these outcomes. They argue that differences in educational systems can explain a part of the differences in student achievement. They "document a number of positive predictors of international differences in student competence, including the amount of preschool education, student discipline, quantity of education, attendance at additional schools, early tracking, the use of centralized exams and high-stakes tests, and adult educational attainment. We found rather negative relationships for grade retention rates, age of school onset, and class size."[31]
Criticism
United States
Critics, such as Mel Riddile of the NASSP say that low performance in the United States is closely related to American poverty, but the same reasoning applies to other countries.[27][28] Riddile also shown that when adjusted for poverty, the richest areas in the US, especially areas with less than 10% poverty can perform an average PISA score of 551 (higher than any other country). The table below summarizes the scores of American schools by their relative OECD poverty rates and compares them to countries with similar poverty rates.[28] It should be noted that the poverty rates here are based on relative poverty, not absolute poverty as defined by a single standard.
Country Poverty Rate PISA score 551 536 508 506 501 527 524 521 520
United States < 10% Finland Netherlands Belgium Switzerland 3.4% 9.0% 6.7% 6.8%
Australia
11.6%
United States 5074.9% Austria Turkey Chile United States > 75% Mexico NASSP 13.3%
Two studies have compared high achievers in mathematics on the PISA and the U.S. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Comparisons were made between those scoring at the "advanced" and "proficient" levels in mathematics on the NAEP with the corresponding performance on the PISA. Overall, 30 nations had higher percentages than the U.S. of students at the "advanced" level of mathematics. The only OECD countries with worse results were Portugal, Greece, Turkey, and Mexico. Six percent of U.S. students were "advanced" in mathematics compared to 28 percent in Taiwan. The highest ranked state in the U.S. (Massachusetts) was just 15th in the world if it was compared with the nations participating in the PISA. 31 nations had higher percentages of "proficient" students than the U.S. Massachusetts was again the best U.S. state, but it ranked just ninth in the world if compared with the nations participating in the PISA.[32][33] Comparisons with results for the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) appear to give different resultssuggesting that the U.S. states actually do better in world rankings.[34] The difference in apparent rankings is, however, almost entirely accounted for by the sampling of countries. PISA includes all of the OECD countries, while TIMSS is much more weighted in its sampling toward developing countries.
China
Education professor Yong Zhao has said the high scores in China are due to an excessive workload and testing, and added that it's "no news that the Chinese education system is excellent in preparing outstanding test takers, just like other education systems within the
Confucian cultural circleSingapore, Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong."[35] Zhao also noted that most major Chinese media outlets did not pay much attention to this story. Others have criticized Shanghai for being sampled on the test instead of the country at large and say that it's an outlier among China and that most of the country has a lower quality of education.[28]
Portugal
According to OECD's PISA, the average Portuguese 15-years old student was for many years underrated and underachieving in terms of reading literacy, mathematics and science knowledge in the OECD, nearly tied with the Italian and just above those from countries like Greece, Turkey and Mexico. However, since 2010, PISA results for Portuguese students improved dramatically. The Portuguese Ministry of Education announced a 2010 report published by its office for educational evaluation GAVE (Gabinete de Avaliao do Ministrio da Educao) which criticized the results of PISA 2009 report and claimed that the average Portuguese teenage student had profund handicaps in terms of expression, communication and logic, as well as a low performance when asked to solve problems. They also claimed that those fallacies are not exclusive of Portugal but indeed occur in other countries due to the way PISA was designed.[36]
See also
Teaching And Learning International Survey (TALIS) Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
References
1. ^ a b Hanushek, Eric A., and Ludger Woessmann. 2011. "The economics of international differences in educational achievement." In Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, edited by Eric A. Hanushek, Stephen Machin, and Ludger Woessmann. Amsterdam: North Holland: 89-200. 2. ^ PISA 2009 Technical Report, 2012, OECD, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/60/31/50036771.pdf 3. ^ Chapter 2 of the publication "PISA 2003 Assessment Framework", pdf 4. ^ http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,3343,en_2649_35845621_44949730_1_1_1_1,00.ht ml 5. ^ C. Fller: Pisa hat einen kleinen, frhlichen Bruder. taz, 5.12.2007 [1] 6. ^ The scaling procedure is described in nearly identical terms in the Technical Reports of PISA 2000, 2003, 2006. It is similar to procedures employed in NAEP and TIMSS. According to J. Wuttke Die Insignifikanz signifikanter Unterschiede. (2007, in German), the description in the Technical Reports is incomplete and plagued by notational errors. 7. ^ PISA 2009. http://www.pisa.oecd.org/document/61/0,3746,en_32252351_32235731_46567613_1_1_1 _1,00.html 8. ^ OECD (2001) p. 53; OECD (2004a) p. 92; OECD (2007) p. 56. 9. ^ E.g. OECD (2001), chapters 7 and 8: Influence of school organization and socio-economic background upon performance in the reading test. Reading was the main domain of PISA 2000. 10. ^ Official PISA site data. For list See "Executive Summary"
11. ^ https://mypisa.acer.edu.au/images/mypisadoc/acer_pisa%202009%2B%20international.pdf 12. ^ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/poor-pisa-ranks-hrd-seeks-reason/896777/ 13. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7267315.stm 14. ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Indian-students-rank-2nd-lastin-global-test/articleshow/11492508.cms 15. ^ M. L. Wu: A Comparison of PISA and TIMSS 2003 achievement results in Mathematics. Paper presented at the AERA Annual Meeting, New York, March, 2008. [2]. 16. ^ Why does Finnish give better PISA results? 17. ^ Eric A. Hanushek, and Ludger Woessmann. 2008. "The role of cognitive skills in economic development." Journal of Economic Literature 46, no. 3 (September): 607-668. 18. ^ Peter Gumbel (Paris) (December 7, 2010). "China Beats Out Finland for Top Marks in Education". TIME. 19. ^ http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2010/12/07/why-are-chinese-schoolkids-so-good/ 20. ^ http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2010/12/new-data-shows-shanghaisrapid-rise-as-a-world-class-education-centre.html 21. ^ http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2010/12/new-data-shows-shanghaisrapid-rise-as-a-world-class-education-centre.html 22. ^ http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2010/12/new-data-shows-shanghaisrapid-rise-as-a-world-class-education-centre.html 23. ^ "Waiting for "Superman" trailer". Retrieved October 8, 2010. 24. ^ Bishop, J. H. (1997). The effect of national standards and curriculum-based exams on achievement. American Economic Review, 87, 260-264. 25. ^ Hanushek, E. A. & Woessmann, L. (2006). Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries. Economic Journal, 116, C63-C76. 26. ^ Simola, H. (2005). The Finnish miracle of PISA: Historical and sociological remarks on teaching and teacher education. Comparative Education, 41, 455-470. 27. ^ a b "The Economics Behind International Education Rankings" National Educational Association 28. ^ a b c d "PISA: It's Poverty Not Stupid" National Association of Secondary School Principals 29. ^ Why does Finnish give better PISA results? 30. ^ Lynn, R. & Meisenberg, G. (2010). National IQs calculated and validated for 108 nations. Intelligence, 38, 353-360. 31. ^ Rindermann, H. & Ceci, S. J. (2009). Educational policy and country outcomes in international cognitive competence studies. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 551577. 32. ^ Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmann, Eric A. Hanushek, and Carlos X. Lastra-Anadn (2011) "Are U.S. students ready to compete? The latest on each states international standing." Education Next 11, no. 4 (Fall): 51-59. http://educationnext.org/are-u-s-studentsready-to-compete/ 33. ^ Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann (2011) "Teaching math to the talented." Education Next 11, no. 1 (Winter): 10-18. http://educationnext.org/teachingmath-to-the-talented/ 34. ^ Gary W. Phillips (2007) Chance favors the prepared mind: Mathematics and science indicators for comparing states. Washington: American Institutes for Research (November 14); Gary W. Phillips (2009) The Second Derivative:International Benchmarks in Mathematics For U.S. States and School Districts. Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research (June). 35. ^ "A True Wake-up Call for Arne Duncan: The Real Reason Behind Chinese Students Top PISA Performance", Yong Zhao
36. ^ (Portuguese) http://tv2.rtp.pt/noticias/?t=Ministerio-aponta-graves-problemas-aosalunos-portugueses.rtp&article=403245&visual=3&layout=10&tm=9 Estudo do ministrio aponta graves problemas aos alunos portugueses], GAVE (Gabinete de Avaliao do Ministrio da Educao) 2010 report in RTP
Further reading
Official websites and reports
OECD/PISA website (Javascript required) o OECD (1999): Measuring Student Knowledge and Skills. A New Framework for Assessment. Paris: OECD, ISBN 92-64-17053-7 [6] o OECD (2001): Knowledge and Skills for Life. First Results from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000. o OECD (2003a): The PISA 2003 Assessment Framework. Mathematics, Reading, Science and Problem Solving Knowledge and Skills. Paris: OECD, ISBN 978-92-6410172-2 [7] o OECD (2004a): Learning for Tomorrow's World. First Results from PISA 2003. Paris: OECD, ISBN 978-92-64-00724-6 [8] o OECD (2004b): Problem Solving for Tomorrow's World. First Measures of CrossCurricular Competencies from PISA 2003. Paris: OECD, ISBN 978-92-64-00642-3 o OECD (2005): PISA 2003 Technical Report. Paris: OECD, ISBN 978-92-64-01053-6 o OECD (2007): Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World: Results from PISA 2006 [9]
General: o A. P. Jakobi, K. Martens: Diffusion durch internationale Organisationen: Die Bildungspolitik der OECD. In: K. Holzinger, H. Jrgens, C. Knill: Transfer, Diffusion und Konvergenz von Politiken. VS Verlag fr Sozialwissenschaften, 2007. France: N. Mons, X. Pons: The reception and use of Pisa in France. Germany: o E. Bulmahn [then federal secretary of education]: PISA: the consequences for Germany. OECD observer, no. 231/232, May 2002. pp. 3334. o H. Ertl: Educational Standards and the Changing Discourse on Education: The Reception and Consequences of the PISA Study in Germany. Oxford Review of Education, v 32 n 5 pp 619634 Nov 2006. United Kingdom: o S. Grek, M. Lawn, J. Ozga: Study on the Use and Circulation of PISA in Scotland. [10]
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Criticism
Books:
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S. Hopmann, G. Brinek, M. Retzl (eds.): PISA zufolge PISA. PISA According to PISA. LIT-Verlag, Wien 2007, ISBN 3-8258-0946-3 (partly in German, partly in English) T. Jahnke, W. Meyerhfer (eds.): PISA & Co Kritik eines Programms. Franzbecker, Hildesheim 2007 (2nd edn.), ISBN 978-3-88120-464-4 (in German)
R. Mnch: Globale Eliten, lokale Autoritten: Bildung und Wissenschaft unter dem Regime von PISA, McKinsey & Co. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2009. ISBN 978-3518-12560-1 (in German) Websites: o J . Wuttke: Critical online bibliography o Correlation of 2009-PISA Scores with National GDP PISA versus GDP
External links
Video clips
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The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international assessment of the mathematics and science knowledge of fourth grade and eighth grade students around the world. TIMSS was developed by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) to allow participating nations to compare students' educational achievement across borders. The IEA also conducts the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). TIMSS was first administered in 1995, and every 4 years thereafter. 59 nations and 425,000 students participated in TIMSS 2007.[1] TIMSS 2011 testing has been done and the results will be published 2012.[2] Another similar study is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
Contents
1 Method o 1.1 1995 o 1.2 United States 2007 2 Top 10 countries by subject and year o 2.1 Math (8th grade) o 2.2 Science (8th grade) 3 All average country scores for 8th graders 4 See also 5 Notes 6 Key publications 7 External links
Method
TIMSS consists of an assessment of mathematics and science, as well as student, teacher, and school questionnaires. The current assessment includes those topics in mathematics and science that students are likely to have been exposed to up to and including grade 4 and grade 8. Two different scoring systems have been used. In one the final score is adjusted so that the average is always 500 and standard deviation is always 100 for each test. This is recalculated for each test year so that so that these values stay the same. In another system the 1995 average and standard deviation are kept for subsequent years which may cause the subsequent years to have different averages and standard deviations from 500 and 100. This in part due to participating nations changing. This system allows easier comparisons between testing years.[3]
1995
The 1995 assessment included grades 4, 8, and the final year of high school. To be able to assess the knowledge of students, assessment items exhibit a range of difficulty and complexity. The student questionnaires are designed to collect information on students' backgrounds, attitudes and beliefs related to schooling and learning, information about their classroom experiences, among many other topics. The teacher and school questionnaires asks about class scheduling, mathematics and science content coverage, school policies, teachers' educational backgrounds and preparation, among many other topics. TIMSS was created through an extensive collaboration among participating countries. Curriculum, measurement, and education experts from around the world worked together to create the assessment frameworks, item pools, and questionnaires. TIMSS is based on the curricula of schools around the world, and is organized to investigate how students are provided educational opportunities, and the factors that influence how students make use of these opportunities. Having its basis in the curricula of schools around the world, TIMSS intends to investigate three levels: the intended curriculum; the implemented curriculum; and the achieved curriculum. The intended curriculum is defined as the mathematics and science that societies intend for students to learn and how education systems are organized to meet
this demand; the implemented curriculum is what is actually taught in classrooms, who teaches it, and how it is taught; the achieved curriculum is what students have learned. The various questionnaires seek information on the intended and implemented curriculum; the assessment seeks to ascertain what students know. US results relative to those of other nations decreased with increasing age so 12th grade performed worse than 8th grade which performed worse than 4th grade.[4]
United States 2007
In the United States, TIMSS is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education.
Data for US students is further tracked for ethnic and racial groups, which can be tracked as the nation. As a whole, grade four students in the United States lagged Asian American the best Asian and European nations in the 2007 TIMSS international math and science test. However, European American broken down by race, Asian Americans scored comparably to Asian nations, European Americans Hispanic American scored comparably to the best European nations (although European nations aggregate their own result African American independent of race or origin). Hispanic Americans Highlights From TIMSS 2007 averaged 505, comparable to students in Austria and Sweden, while African Americans at 482 were comparable to Norway.
Grade eight students in the United States also lagged the best Asian and European nations in the 2007 TIMSS international math and science test. Broken down by race, in math, US Asians (with no distinction between East Asians and other Asians) scored comparably to, although lower than sampled East Asian nations at 549, white Americans scored comparably to, although more strongly than, the best European nations, at 533, Hispanic Americans averaged 475, comparable to students in Malaysia and Norway, while African Americans at 457 were comparable to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lebanon.[5]
1. 2. 3.
1. 2.
598 597
585 3.
586 3.
Singapore 593
4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
582 579
4. 5. 6.
Hong Kong 572 Japan Hungary England (and Wales) Russia United States Lithuania 570 517 513 512 508 506
558 7. 540 8. 534 9. Hungary 532 10. Malaysia 508 10. 531 Netherlands Estonia
Switzerland
9. 10.
Netherlands Slovenia
Science (8th grade) TIMSS1995 TIMSS-R1999 TIMSS2003 578 1. 571 558 4. 4. 549 5. 6. 7. Netherlands 545 6. Hong Kong Estonia Japan 556 5. 552 552 6. England (and Wales) Hungary Czech Republic Slovenia 542 539 539 538 530 530 South Korea 553 2. 3. TIMSS2007 Singapore 567 Taiwan Japan 561 554
1. 2. 3.
607
1.
Taiwan
569
1.
Singapore Taiwan
South 3. Korea
Australia 540 7. Czech Republic England Finland 539 8. 538 9. 535 10.
558 8. 554 9.
552 10.
TIMSS 1995: [1] TIMSS 1999: [2] TIMSS 2003: [3][4] TIMSS 2007: [5][6]
See also
Programme for International Student Assessment, an educational ranking among OECD nations.
Notes
1. ^ TIMSS 2011 Mathematics Report, 2008, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, http://www.timss.org/ 2. ^ TIMSS 2011 Schedule, TIMSS 2011, TIMSS, http://www.timss.org/ 3. ^ TIMSS 2007 International Mathematics Report, 2008, IEA 4. ^ U.S. Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics "Pursuing Excellence: A Study of U.S. Twelfth-Grade Mathematics and Science Achievement in International Context" NCES 98-049. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.February 1998 EEVISED August 1998 Available for downloading at http://nces.ed.gov/timss 5. ^ Highlights From TIMSS 2007
Key publications
TIMSS 2007 Assessment Frameworks [7] TIMSS 2003 International Mathematics Report [8] TIMSS 2003 International Science Report [9] IEA's TIMSS 2003 International Report on Achievement in the Mathematics Cognitive Domains [10]
External links
International TIMSS U.S. Department of Education TIMSS TIMSS: What Have We Learned about Math and Science Teaching? - Education Resources Information Center Clearinghouse for Science Mathematics and Environmental Education, Columbus, Ohio.
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Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Contact UsIAP Home|TIMSS Publications & Products|Staff|Assessments & Surveys TIMSS Results 2007 Tables and Figures Table 1. Average mathematics scores of fourth- and eighth-grade students, by country: 2007
Grade four Country Hong Kong SAR1 Singapore Chinese Taipei Japan Average score 607 599 576 568
Grade eight Country TIMSS scale average Chinese Taipei Korea, Rep. of Singapore Hong Kong SAR1, 4 Average score 500 598 597 593 572
Kazakhstan2
549
570 517 513 512 508 506 504 501 499 496 491 488 487 486 480 474 469 465 464 463 462 461
2, 5
541 537 535 530 529 525 523 516 510 507 505 503 502 500 496 494 492 486 473 469 438
United States Germany Denmark4 Australia Hungary Italy Austria Sweden Slovenia Armenia
Czech Republic Slovenia Armenia Australia Sweden Malta Scotland4 Serbia Italy Malaysia Norway Cyprus Bulgaria Israel7 Ukraine Romania
Slovak Republic Scotland4 New Zealand Czech Republic Norway Ukraine Georgia
2
Bosnia and Herzegovina 456 Lebanon Thailand Turkey Jordan Tunisia Georgia2 Iran, Islamic Rep. of Bahrain Indonesia Syrian Arab Republic Egypt 449 441 432 427 420 410 403 398 397 395 391
Iran, Islamic Rep. of 402 Algeria Colombia Morocco El Salvador Tunisia Kuwait Qatar Yemen
6
387 380 372 367 364 354 340 329 309 307
Average score is higher than the U.S. average score (p < .05) Average score is not measurably different from the U.S. average score (p < .05) Average score is lower than the U.S. average score (p < .05) 1 Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. 2 National Target Population does not include all of the International Target Population defined by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). 3 Nearly satisfied guidelines for sample participation rates only after substitute schools were included. 4 Met guidelines for sample participation rates only after substitute schools were included. 5 National Defined Population covers 90 percent to 95 percent of National Target Population. 6 Kuwait tested the same cohort of students as other countries, but later in 2007, at the beginning of the next school year. 7 National Defined Population covers less than 90 percent of National Target Population (but at least 77 percent). NOTE: Countries are ordered by 2007 average score. The tests for significance take into account the standard error for the reported difference. Thus, a small difference between the United States and one country may be significant while a large difference between the United States and another country may not be significant. The standard errors of the estimates are shown in tables E-1 and E-2 available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009001. SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2007. TIMSS Results 2007 Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics U.S. Department of Education NewsFlash | Staff | Contact | Help | RSS | Privacy Policy Statistical Standards | FedStats.gov | ChildStats.gov Tables and Figures
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Contact UsIAP Home|TIMSS Publications & Products|Staff|Assessments & Surveys TIMSS Results 2007 Tables and Figures Table 3. Average science scores of fourth- and eighth-grade students, by country: 2007
Grade four Country Average score 587 557 554 548 TIMSS scale average 500 Singapore Chinese Taipei Hong Kong SAR1 Japan Latvia2 England United States Hungary Italy Kazakhstan2 Germany Australia Slovak Republic Austria Sweden Netherlands5 Slovenia Denmark3 Czech Republic Lithuania2 New Zealand Scotland3 Armenia Norway Ukraine
3, 4
Grade eight Country TIMSS scale average Singapore Chinese Taipei Japan Korea, Rep. of England3 Hungary Czech Republic Slovenia Hong Kong SAR United States3, 4 Lithuania2 Australia Sweden Scotland3 Italy Armenia Norway Ukraine Jordan Malaysia Thailand Serbia2, 4 Bulgaria Israel
7 7 1, 3
Average score 500 567 561 554 553 542 539 539 538 530 530 520 519 515 511 496 495 488 487 485 482 471 471 470 470 468 467
Russian Federation 546 542 542 539 536 535 533 528 527 526 526 525 523 518 517 515 514 504 500 484 477 474
Russian Federation
Bahrain
Bosnia and Herzegovina 466 Romania Iran, Islamic Rep. of Malta Turkey Syrian Arab Republic Cyprus Tunisia Indonesia Oman Georgia2 Kuwait6 Colombia Lebanon Egypt Algeria Palestinian Nat'l Auth. Saudi Arabia El Salvador Botswana Qatar Ghana 462 459 457 454 452 452 445 427 423 421 418 417 414 408 408 404 403 387 355 319 303
Average score is higher than the U.S. average score (p < .05) Average score is not measurably different from the U.S. average score (p < .05) Average score is lower than the U.S. average score (p < .05) 1 Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. 2 National Target Population does not include all of the International Target Population defined by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). 3 Met guidelines for sample participation rates only after substitute schools were included. 4 National Defined Population covers 90 percent to 95 percent of National Target Population. 5 Nearly satisfied guidelines for sample participation rates only after substitute schools were included. 6 Kuwait tested the same cohort of students as other countries, but later in 2007, at the beginning of the next school year. 7 National Defined Population covers less than 90 percent of National Target Population (but at least 77 percent). NOTE: Countries are ordered by 2007 average score. The tests for significance take into account the standard error for the reported difference. Thus, a small difference between the
United States and one country may be significant while a large difference between the United States and another country may not be significant. The standard errors of the estimates are shown in tables E-20 and E-21 available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009001. SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2007.
Country International average1 Singapore Chinese Taipei Korea, Republic of Hong Kong SAR2,3 Estonia Japan Hungary Netherlands2 (United States) Australia Sweden Slovenia New Zealand Lithuania4 Slovak Republic Belgium-Flemish Russian Federation Latvia Scotland2 Malaysia Norway
Average score 473 578 571 558 556 552 552 543 536 527 527 524 520 520 519 517 516 514 512 512 510 494
Country Italy (Israel) Bulgaria Jordan Moldova, Republic of Romania Serbia4 Armenia Iran, Islamic Republic of (Macedonia, Republic of) Cyprus Bahrain
Average score 491 488 479 475 472 470 468 461 453 449 441 438
Palestinian National Authority 435 Egypt Indonesia4 Chile Tunisia Saudi Arabia (Morocco) Lebanon Philippines Botswana Ghana South Africa 421 420 413 404 398 396 393 377 365 255 244
Average is higher than the U.S. average Average is not measurably different from the U.S.
Country
Average score
The international average reported here differs from that reported in Martin et al. (2004) due to the deletion of England. In Martin et al., the reported international average is 474. 2 Met international guidelines for participation rates in 2003 only after replacement schools were included. 3 Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. 4 National desired population does not cover all of the international desired population. NOTE: Countries are ordered by 2003 average score. The test for significance between the United States and the international average was adjusted to account for the U.S. contribution to the international average. The tests for significance take into account the standard error for the reported difference. Thus, a small difference between the United States and one country may be significant while a large difference between the United States and another country may not be significant. Parentheses indicate countries that did not meet international sampling or other guidelines in 2003. Countries were required to sample students in the upper of the two grades that contained the largest number of 13-year-olds. In the United States and most countries, this corresponds to grade 8. See table A1 in appendix A for details. SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2003.
Country International average1 Singapore Korea, Republic of Hong Kong SAR2,3 Chinese Taipei Japan Belgium-Flemish Netherlands2 Estonia Hungary Malaysia Latvia Russian Federation Slovak Republic Australia (United States) Lithuania4 Sweden Scotland2 (Israel) New Zealand Slovenia
Average score 466 605 589 586 585 570 537 536 531 529 508 508 508 508 505 504 502 499 498 496 494 493
Country Italy Armenia Serbia4 Bulgaria Romania Norway Moldova, Republic of Cyprus (Macedonia, Republic of ) Lebanon Jordan Iran, Islamic Republic of Indonesia4 Tunisia Egypt Bahrain
Average score 484 478 477 476 475 461 460 459 435 433 424 411 411 410 406 401
Palestinian National Authority 390 Chile (Morocco) Philippines Botswana Saudi Arabia Ghana South Africa 387 387 378 366 332 276 264
Average is higher than the U.S. average Average is not measurably different from the U.S.
Country
Average score
The international average reported here differs from that reported in Mullis et al. (2004) due to the deletion of England. In Mullis et al.,the reported international average is 467. 2 Met international guidelines for participation rates in 2003 only after replacement schools were included. 3 Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. 4 National desired population does not cover all of the international desired population. NOTE: Countries are ordered by 2003 average score. The test for significance between the United States and the international average was adjusted to account for the U.S. contribution to the international average. The tests for significance take into account the standard error for the reported difference. Thus, a small difference between the United States and one country may be significant while a large difference between the United States and another country may not be significant. Parentheses indicate countries that did not meet international sampling or other guidelines in 2003. Countries were required to sample students in the upper of the two grades that contained the largest number of 13-year-olds. In the United States and most countries, this corresponds to grade 8. See table A1 in appendix A for details. SOURCE: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2003.
In 1999, U.S. eighth-graders exceeded the international average of 38 nations in mathematics and science. In 1999, the United States was one of 34 participating nations in which eighth-grade boys and girls performed similarly in mathematics. The United States was one of 16 participating nations in which eighth-grade boys outperformed eighth-grade girls in science. Science Nation Chinese Taipei Singapore Hungary Japan Korea, Republic of Netherlands Australia Czech Republic England Finland Slovak Republic Belgium-Flemish Slovenia Canada Hong Kong SAR Russian Federation Bulgaria United States New Zealand Latvia-LSS Italy Malaysia Lithuania Thailand Romania Israel Cyprus Moldova Macedonia, Republic of
Mathematics Nation Singapore Korea, Republic of Chinese Taipei Hong Kong SAR Japan Belgium-Flemish Netherlands Slovak Republic Hungary Canada Slovenia Russian Federation Australia Finland Czech Republic Malaysia Bulgaria Latvia-LSS United States England New Zealand Lithuania Italy Cyprus Romania Moldova Thailand Israel Tunisia
Average 604 587 585 582 579 558 540 534 532 531 530 526 525 520 520 519 511 505 502 496 491 482 479 476 472 469 467 466 448
Average 569 568 552 550 549 545 540 539 538 535 535 535 533 533 530 529 518 515 510 503 493 492 488 482 472 468 460 459 458
Macedonia, Republic of 447 Jordan Turkey 429 Iran, Islamic Republic of Jordan 428 Indonesia Iran, Islamic Republic of 422 Turkey Indonesia 403 Tunisia Chile 392 Chile Philippines 345 Philippines Morocco 337 Morocco South Africa 275 South Africa Average is significantly higher than the U.S. average Average does not differ significantly from the U.S. average Average is significantly lower than the U.S. average
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Key Findings
Singapore was the top-performing country in mathematics and science at both the eighth and seventh grades. Korea, Japan, and the Czech Republic also performed very well in both subjects. Hong Kong and the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium also were among the top countries in mathematics. (See pages 2 and 3 for a full listing of the results.) For most countries, even though gender differences were minimal in mathematics, they were pervasive in science. Boys outperformed girls, particularly in physics, chemistry, and earth science. Home factors were strongly related to mathematics and science achievement in every TIMSS country (i.e., educational resources, books in the home, and parents' education). In almost every country, the majority of students agreed that they did well in mathematics and science. Interestingly, some of the countries with the highest achievement also were those whose students had the most negative perceptions of success -- Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong.
Achievement in Mathematics
Eighth Grade*
Country Singapore Korea Japan Hong Kong Belgium (Fl) Czech Republic Slovak Republic Switzerland Netherlands
Average Achievement
Seventh Grade*
Country Singapore Korea Japan Hong Kong Belgium (Fl) Czech Republic Netherlands Bulgaria Austria
Average Achievement
Slovenia Bulgaria Austria France Hungary Russian Federation Australia Ireland Canada Belgium (Fr) Thailand Israel Sweden Germany New Zealand England Norway Denmark United States Scotland Latvia (LSS) Spain Iceland
Slovak Republic Belgium (Fr) Switzerland Hungary Russian Federation Ireland Slovenia Australia Thailand Canada France Germany Sweden England United States New Zealand Denmark Scotland Latvia (LSS) Norway Iceland Romania Spain
535 530 527 527 526 522 522 519 509 508 506 503 502 500 498 493 487 487
500 498 498 495 494 492 484 477 476 476 472 465 463 462 461 459 454 448
Greece Romania Lithuania Cyprus Portugal Iran, Islamic Rep. Kuwait Colombia South Africa
Cyprus Greece Lithuania Portugal Iran, Islamic Rep. Colombia South Africa
*Eighth and seventh grades in most countries. Latvia is annotated LSS for Latvian Speaking Schools only. Countries shown in italics did not satisfy one or more guidelines for sample participation rates, age/grade specifications, or classroom sampling procedures. SOURCE: IEA Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 1994-95.
Achievement in Science
Eighth Grade*
Country Singapore Czech Republic Japan Korea
Average Achievement
Seventh Grade*
Country Singapore Korea Czech Republic Japan
Average Achievement
Bulgaria Netherlands Slovenia Austria Hungary England Belgium (Fl) Australia Slovak Republic Russian Federation Ireland Sweden United States Germany Canada Norway New Zealand Thailand Israel Hong Kong Switzerland Scotland Spain
565 560 560 558 554 552 550 545 544 538 538 535 534 531 531 527 525 525 524 522 522 517 517
Bulgaria Slovenia Belgium (Fl) Austria Hungary Netherlands England Slovak Republic United States Australia Germany Canada Hong Kong Ireland Thailand Sweden Russian Federation Switzerland Norway New Zealand Spain Scotland Iceland
531 530 529 519 519 517 512 510 508 504 499 499 495 495 493 488 484 484 483 481 477 468 462
France Greece Iceland Romania Latvia (LSS) Portugal Denmark Lithuania Belgium (Fr) Iran, Islamic Rep. Cyprus Kuwait Colombia South Africa
498 497 494 486 485 480 478 476 471 470 463 430 411 326
Romania France Greece Belgium (Fr) Denmark Iran, Islamic Rep. Latvia (LSS) Portugal Cyprus Lithuania Colombia South Africa
452 451 449 442 439 436 435 428 420 403 387 317
*Eighth and seventh grades in most countries. Latvia is annotated LSS for Latvian Speaking Schools only. Countries shown in italics did not satisfy one or more guidelines for sample participation rates, age/grade specifications, or classroom sampling procedures. SOURCE: IEA Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 1994-95.
Most countries reported that four years of post-secondary education, practice in teaching, and some form of examination were required for teacher certification. In many countries, students generally were in mathematics and science classes of fewer than 30 students. Korea was a notable exception, with most students in classes of 40 or more.
Mathematics teachers in many countries reported a high frequency of calculator use in their classes, often for checking answers, routine computation, and solving complex problems. Again, Korea was the exception, where it was reported that calculators were seldom used. Teacher demonstrations of experiments were common in science classes regardless of whether eighth graders were taught science as a single subject or as separate science subjects, as is done in much of Europe. Notwithstanding a considerable range in student reports, eighth graders in about half the countries reported doing an average of 2 or 3 hours of homework each day. Most typically, students reported studying mathematics for roughly an hour each day, and science for somewhat less than that. Eighth graders in most countries reported spending as much out-of-school time each day in non-academic activities as they did in academic activities. Most frequently, students reported watching 1 or 2 hours of television each day as well as spending several hours playing or talking with friends, and nearly 2 hours playing sports. (Of course, for teenagers, these activities often occur simultaneously, such as watching television and talking with friends on the phone.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_in_International_Reading_Literacy_Study
PIRLS 2006 The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an international study of reading achievement in fourth graders. It is conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). "It is designed to measure childrens reading literacy achievement, to provide a baseline for future studies of trends in achievement, and to gather information about childrens home and school experiences in learning to read."[1] PIRLS 2006 tested 215,000 students from 46 educational systems.[1] PIRLS 2011 testing has been done and the results will be published 2012. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is another large international study that also tests reading.
Contents
1 History 2 PIRLS Assessment 3 Background Questionnaire 4 Questionnaire Development Group 5 Participating Offices 6 Reading Development Group 7 Participating Countries 8 Future Studies 9 References 10 External links
History
PIRLS is one of the largest international collections of reading literacy. Studies of reading literacy had been conducted prior to the study of 2001. PIRLS is the successor to the IEA studies that started in 1970 and continued to 1991 with the Reading Literacy Study. The study of 2001 started the trend for the PIRLS cyclical testing. They plan on testing every five years. By administering the test every five years, it allows countries to monitor their children's literacy achievement. Also in 2001, background information about the students and schools were collected. The reading achievement results present each country with an opportunity to examine educational policies and practices against a globally-defined benchmark, while the report also contains rich information about children's early literacy experiences and reading instruction" said PIRLS International Study Directors Ina V.S. Mullis and Michael O. Martin of Boston College.[2]
PIRLS Assessment
The PIRLS study consists of a main survey that consists of a written reading comprehension test and a background questionnaire. The PIRLS Reading Development Group (RDG) and National Research Coordinators (NRCs) from the 35 countries collaborate to develop the reading assessments. The assessment focuses on three main areas of literacy: process of comprehension, purposes for reading, and reading behaviors and attitudes. The background questionnaire is used to determine the reading behaviors and attitudes. The written test is designed to address the process of comprehension and the purposes for reading. There are two purposes for reading that are examined in this study: reading for literary experience and reading to acquire and use information. Each student receives 80 minutes to complete two passages and then time to complete the survey. There are a total of 8 passage. Four passages are for each purpose of reading. "With eight reading passages in total, but just two to be given to any one student, passages and their accompanying items were assigned to student test booklets according to a matrix sampling plan. The eight passages were distributed across 10 booklets, two per booklet, so that passages were paired together in a booklet in as many different ways as possible."[3]
Background Questionnaire
Given to:
Home/Parents --
This questionnaire includes questions about "students early reading experiences, child-parent literacy interactions, parents reading habits and attitudes, home-school connections, and demographic and socioeconomic indicators."
Students --
This questionnaire includes questions about "instructional experiences, self-perception and attitudes towards reading, out-of-school reading habits, computer use, home literacy resources, and basic demographic information."
Teachers --
This questionnaire includes questions about "characteristics of the class tested, instructional activities for teaching reading, classroom resources, assessment practices, and about their education, training, and opportunities for professional development."
Schools --
This questionnaire includes questions about "enrollment and school characteristics, school organization for reading instruction, school staffing and resources, home-school connections, and the school environment."
-- (http://timss.bc.edu/pirls2001i/pdf/P1_IR_A.pdf)
Ivana Krizova (Czech Republic) Mike Marshall (Canada) Monica Rosen (Sweden) Graham Ruddock (England) Maurice Walker (New Zealand)
Participating Offices
IEA Headquarters in Amsterdam International Study Center (ISC) at Boston College Statistics Canada Educational Testing Services in Princeton, NJ National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in Great Britain Reading Development Group (RDG)
Marilyn Binkley (United States) Karl Blueml (Austria) Sue Horner (England) Pirjo Linnakyl (Finland) Martine Remond (France) Keen See Tan (Singapore) William Tunmer (New Zealand)
Participating Countries
New Zealand Norway Romania Russian Federation Scotland Singapore Slovak Republic
Future Studies
The PIRLS starting a followup study in 2006. The plan is to try to get 150 schools with 30004500 students per country. They will include 35 countries and 5,400 schools. They plan to have another follow-up study in 2011 to see the long term changes.
References
1. ^ An Overview of PIRLS 2006: Design, Results and Subsequent Analysis, Oliver Neuschmidt, IEA Data Processing and Research Center Ina V.S. Mullis and Michael O. Martin, TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center Boston College, http://www.iaea2008.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/ca/digitalAssets/180462_Neuschmi dt.pdf
External links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
World map by quartiles of Human Development Index in 2011. Very High High Medium Low Data unavailable
World map indicating the Human Development Index (based on 2011 data, published on Nov 2, 2011).[1] 0.900 and over 0.8500.899 0.6500.699 0.6000.649 0.4000.449 0.3500.399
This is a list of all countries by Human Development Index as included in a United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report. The latest report was released on 2 November 2011 and compiled on the basis of estimates for 2011. It covers 185 member states of the United Nations (out of 193), along with Hong Kong (of the People's Republic of China), and the Palestinian territories; 8 UN member states are not included due to lack of data. The average HDI of regions of the World and groups of countries are also included for comparison. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, standards of living, and quality of life for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, a developing or an under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq[2] and Indian economist Amartya Sen.[3] Countries fall into four broad human development categories, each of which comprises 47 countries: Very High Human Development, High Human Development, Medium Human Development and Low Human Development (46 countries in this category). Due to the new methodology adopted since the 2010 Human Development Report, the new reported HDI figures appear lower than the HDI figures in previous reports. From 2007 to 2010, the first category was referred to as developed countries, and the last three are all grouped in developing countries. The original "high human development" category has been split into two as above in the report for 2007. Some older groupings (high/medium/low income countries) have been removed that were based on the gross domestic product (GDP) in purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita, and have been replaced by another index based on the gross national income (GNI) in purchasing power parity per capita. The country with the largest decrease in HDI since 1998 is Zimbabwe, falling from 0.514 in 1998 to 0.140 in 2010. The country with the largest decrease since 2009 is Cape Verde, which decreased by 0.170. Over half of the world's population live in countries with "medium human development" (51%), while less than a fifth (18%) populate countries falling in the "low human development" category. Countries with "high" to "very high" human development account for less than a third of the world's total population (30%).
Contents
1.1 Very high human development 1.2 High human development 1.3 Medium human development 1.4 Low human development 2 List of countries by continent o 2.1 Africa o 2.2 Americas o 2.3 Asia and Oceania o 2.4 Europe 3 List of countries by non-continental region o 3.1 Arab League member states o 3.2 European Union o 3.3 East Asia and the Pacific o 3.4 Latin America o 3.5 Middle East and North Africa 4 HDI by regions & groups 5 Countries missing from latest report o 5.1 UN member states (latest UNDP data) o 5.2 Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP) 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links
o o o o
2011 Very High HDI nations, by population size 489.0 325.0 205.1 58 25.8
= increase. Europe = steady. = decrease. N. America Similar HDI values in the current list do not lead to ranking ties, Asia since the HDI rank is actually determined using HDI values to S. America the sixth decimal point. The number in brackets Oceania represents the number of ranks the country has climbed (up or down) relative to new 2011 data for 2010 (as indicated in the new 2011 report, p. 131).
HDI Country
Rank Country
HDI
New Change 2011 compare Estimate d to new s for 2011
New Change New Change 2011 compare 2011 compare Estimate d to new Estimate d to new s for 2011 s for 2011
2011
[1]
2011
[1]
2011
[1]
2011
[1]
1 2 3
Norway Australia
0.943 0.929
0.002 25
0.002
26 Netherlands United States New Zealand Canada Ireland 0.910 0.001 27 0.910 0.002 28 0.908 29 6 7 0.908 0.908 0.001 0.001 30
0.002
0.865
0.002
0.863
0.001 0.001
0.846
0.001
Liechtenstei 0.905 n Germany Sweden 0.905 0.904 0.903 0.901 0.898 0.898 0.897
0.001
31 32 33 34
0.001
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
(1)
Andorra Brunei
(1)
16 17
Denmark Israel
0.895 0.888
0.002 0.002
41
(1)
Portugal
0.809
0.001
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Belgium 0.886 Austria France Slovenia Finland Spain Italy 0.885 0.884 0.884 0.882 0.878 0.874
42 43 44 45 46 47
(1) (1)
Argentina
0.001
Barbados
HDI
Rank
HDI
Change New compare 2011 d to new Estimate 2011 s for data for 2011 2010 [1]
[1]
Country
Change New New Change compare 2011 2011 compare d to new Estimate Estimate d to new 2011 s for s for 2011 data for 2011 2011 data for 2010 [1] [1] [1] 2010 [1]
Country
48 49 50 51 52 53
Uruguay Palau
72
0.735
73
Venezuela Bosnia
0.735
0.001
74 0.002 0.001
and Herzegovin a
0.733
0.002
75
Georgia
(3)
0.733
0.004
54
(1)
0.771
0.002
76
Ukraine
0.729
0.004
55
(1)
0.771
0.003
77
Mauritius
0.728
0.002
56 57 58 59
(2)
0.003 0.003
78
(2)
0.728
0.002
79
(1) (1)
0.003 0.002
80 81
60
(1)
and Barbuda Malaysia Trinidad and Tobago Kuwait Libya Belarus Russia Grenada
0.764
0.001
82
0.723
0.003
61
(3)
0.761
0.003
83 84
(1)
Ecuador Brazil
0.720 0.718
0.002 0.003
62
(1)
0.760
63 64 65 66 67 68
(1) (10)
85
(1)
0.002
86 87 88 89 90
0.002 0.003
(1)
69 70 71
(1)
0.744
0.002 91 0.002 92
(3) (1) (1)
(1) (1)
Lebanon
0.002
93 94
Tunisia 0.698
Change New New Change compare 2011 2011 compare d to new Estimate Estimate d to new 2011 s for s for 2011 data for 2011 2011 data for 2010 [1] [1] [1] 2010 [1]
Change New compare 2011 d to new Estimate 2011 s for data for 2011 2010 [1]
[1]
95 96 97
(1)
Jordan Algeria
0.001
(1)
Sri Lanka
98
(2)
(1)
0.689
0.003
99 100 101
(3)
Fiji China
0.004
124
(1)
0.004
102
Turkmenista n
0.686
0.005
125
(2)
0.617
0.002
103 104
0.002 0.003
126
0.615
0.004
127 105 106 107 108 109 110 0.674 0.674 0.665 0.663 0.661 0.653 0.002 128 0.004 129 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.006 130
0.607 0.593
0.003 0.003
Vietnam
0.002
Morocco
0.003
Maldives Mongolia
131
Guatemal a
0.574
0.001
Moldova 0.649 Philippines Egypt Palestinian territories Uzbekistan Federated States of Micronesia
(2) (1)
0.005 0.003
0.644 0.644
114
0.641
0.001
135
Ghana
115
0.641
0.005
136
(1)
0.003
116
0.636
0.001
137 138
(1) (2)
Congo Laos
117 118
Guyana
0.633 0.633
Botswana
Swaziland
0.002
141
(1)
Bhutan
0.522
0.004
HDI
Rank
HDI
Change New compare 2011 d to new Estimate 2011 s for data for 2011 2010 [1]
[1]
Country
Change New New Change compare 2011 2011 compare d to new Estimate Estimate d to new 2011 s for s for 2011 data for 2011 2011 data for 2010 [1] [1] [1] 2010 [1]
Country
142
Solomon Islands
(1)
Rwanda 0.429 Benin Gambia Sudan Cte 0.427 0.420 0.408 0.400
143
144
(1)
0.509
0.003
145
0.504
0.001 171
d'Ivoire Malawi 0.400 0.398 0.376 0.005 0.004 0.012 0.005 0.003 0.002 0.004 0.002
146
0.500
0.495
Myanmar
150
(1)
Cameroon
0.482
0.003 177
Guinea0.353 Bissau Eritrea Guinea Central African Republic Sierra Leone Burkina Faso
(1) (1)
0.349 0.344
151
(2)
0.001
178
152
(1)
Tanzania Papua
0.005
179
0.343
0.004
153
(1)
New Guinea
0.466
0.004
180
0.336
0.002
Senegal
Liberia Chad
0.005
0.003 0.002
Mauritania
160
Lesotho
0.450
161
Uganda
0.446
0.004
162 163
Togo Comoros
(1)
0.435 0.433
0.002 0.002
164
Zambia
0.430
0.005
165
(1)
Djibouti
0.430
0.003
10 highest HDIs
HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
10 lowest HDIs
HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
High human development 1 2 3 4 Seychelles Libya Mauritius Tunisia Medium human development 5 6 7 8 9 10 Algeria Gabon Egypt Botswana Namibia South Africa 0.698 0.674 0.644 0.633 0.625 0.619 0.773 0.760 0.728 0.698 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1
Low human development Democratic Republic of the Congo Niger Burundi Mozambique Chad Liberia Burkina Faso Sierra Leone Central African Republic Guinea 0.286
Americas
10 highest HDIs
HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
10 lowest HDIs
HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development 1 2 3 4 5 United States Canada Chile Argentina Barbados High human development 6 7 8 9 10 Uruguay Cuba Bahamas Mexico Panama 0.783 0.776 0.771 0.770 0.768 0.910 0.908 0.805 0.797 0.793 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1
Low human development Haiti Medium human development Guatemala Nicaragua Honduras Guyana Bolivia Paraguay El Salvador Suriname Dominican Republic 0.574 0.589 0.625 0.633 0.663 0.665 0.674 0.680 0.689 0.454
10 highest HDIs
HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
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HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Japan Hong Kong South Korea Israel Singapore United Arab Emirates Brunei Bahrain
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Nepal Yemen Papua New Guinea Myanmar Timor-Leste Bangladesh Pakistan Solomon Islands Medium human development
10 Europe
Bhutan
0.522
10 highest HDIs
HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
10 lowest HDIs
HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Norway Netherlands Ireland Liechtenstein Germany Sweden Switzerland Iceland 0.943 0.910 0.908 0.905 0.905 0.904 0.903 0.898 2 3 4 5 6 7 1
Medium human development Moldova High human development Turkey Armenia Macedonia Ukraine Azerbaijan Georgia 0.699 0.716 0.728 0.729 0.731 0.733 0.649
9 10
Denmark Belgium
0.895 0.886
8 9 10
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Very high human development 1 2 3 United Arab Emirates Qatar Bahrain High human development 4 5 6 7 8 9 Saudi Arabia Kuwait Libya Lebanon Oman Tunisia Medium human development 10 Jordan 0.698 0.770 0.760 0.760 0.739 0.705 0.698 6 7 8 9 10 0.846 0.831 0.806 1 2 3 4 5
Low human development Sudan Djibouti Comoros Mauritania Yemen Medium human development Iraq Morocco Syria Palestinian territories Egypt 0.573 0.582 0.632 0.641 0.644 0.408 0.430 0.433 0.453 0.462
European Union
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HDI Rank Country
New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Netherlands Ireland Germany Sweden Denmark Belgium Austria France Slovenia Finland 0.910 0.908 0.905 0.904 0.895 0.886 0.885 0.884 0.884 0.882 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 East Asia and the Pacific 1 2
Very high human development Latvia Portugal Lithuania Poland Hungary Malta Slovakia Estonia 0.805 0.809 0.810 0.813 0.816 0.832 0.834 0.835
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Australia New Zealand Japan Hong Kong South Korea Singapore Brunei High human development
1 2 3 4 5
Nepal Papua New Guinea Myanmar East Timor Solomon Islands Medium human development
6 7
8 9 10
8 9 10
Latin America
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HDI Rank Country
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Medium human development Guatemala Nicaragua Honduras Bolivia Paraguay 0.574 0.589 0.625 0.663 0.665
High human development 3 4 5 6 Uruguay Cuba Mexico Panama 0.783 0.776 0.770 0.768
7 8 9 10
7 8
0.674 0.689
12 11
Colombia Brazil
0.710 0.718
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HDI Rank Country
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Very high human development 1 2 3 4 5 Israel United Arab Emirates Cyprus Qatar Bahrain High human development 6 7 8 9 10 Saudi Arabia Kuwait Libya Lebanon Iran 0.770 0.760 0.760 0.739 0.707 0.888 0.846 0.840 0.831 0.806 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2
Low human development Sudan Yemen Medium human development Iraq Morocco Syria Palestinian territories Egypt Algeria Jordan Tunisia 0.573 0.582 0.632 0.641 0.644 0.698 0.698 0.698 0.408 0.462
Region or Group
2011 2011 estimates estimates for 2011 for 2010 HDI[4] HDI[4]
Very high human development Very High Human Development OECD 0.889 0.873 High human development Europe and Central Asia High Human Development 0.751 0.741 0.748 0.739 0.728 0.888 0.871
Latin America and the Caribbean 0.731 Medium human development World East Asia and the Pacific Arab states Small Island Developing States Medium Human Development South Asia 0.682 0.671 0.641 0.640 0.630 0.548 Low human development Sub-Saharan Africa Low Human Development Least Developed Countries 0.463 0.456 0.439
Country HDI
Ran k
Source
Very high human development Very high human development countries on list 0.94 N/A N/A without HDI Monaco 6 reported[citatio
n needed] [5]
1997
1998
N/A
[12]
2008 countries on list San 0.94 N/A N/A without HDI 4 Marino reported[citatio
n needed] [6]
[13]
1997
1998
[14]
[13]
1998
2010
[15]
1998
N/A Nauru
2011
[nb 2]
1998
N/A Tuvalu
[9]
2010
[17]
2008
[13]
1998
countries on list 0.56 N/A Marshal N/A without HDI 3 l Islands reported[citatio
n needed]
[10]
2007
[13][18]
2008
[13]
2008
[13]
2001
[11][nb 1]
N/A
N/A
N/A
[citation needed]
Sudan
See also
List of countries by future Human Development Index projections of the United Nations American Human Development Project Happy Planet Index List of African countries by Human Development Index List of Argentine provinces by Human Development Index List of Australian states and territories by HDI List of Brazilian states by Human Development Index List of Chilean regions by Human Development Index List of Chinese administrative divisions by Human Development Index List of countries by Human Development Index/Former reports List of countries by inequality-adjusted HDI List of Indian states and territories by Human Development Index List of Indonesian provinces by HDI List of Mexican states by Human Development Index List of Pakistani Districts by Human Development Index List of Philippine provinces by Human Development Index List of Russian federal subjects by HDI List of sovereign states in Europe by Human Development Index List of Thailand provinces by Human Development Index List of U.S. states by HDI List of Venezuelan states by human development index Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe statistics Satisfaction with Life Index
Notes
1. ^ Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data). 2. ^ The UN does not recognize the Republic of China (Taiwan) as a sovereign state. The HDI report does not include Taiwan as part of the People's Republic of China when calculating China's figures (see [1]). The ROC's government calculated its HDI to be 0.868, based on 2010 new methodology of UNDP for calculating 2010 HDIs.[16]
References
1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag "Human Development Report 2011 Human development statistical annex". HDRO (Human Development Report Office United Nations Development Programme. pp. 127130. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
2. ^ "History of the Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 26 March 2009. 3. ^ "The Human Development concept". UNDP. 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2011. 4. ^ a b "2011 Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. p. 151. Retrieved 2 November 2011. 5. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states 6. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states 7. ^ "The State of Human Development" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009. 8. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states 9. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states 10. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states 11. ^ "Human Development Report: Somalia 2001" (PDF). 2001. p. 198. Retrieved 26 March 2009.[dead link] 12. ^ "Puerto Rico (United States)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply the United States's HDI published on the 1997 report[citation needed]. 13. ^ a b c d e f "Les dfis de la croissance caldonienne, on page 13" (in French) (PDF). CEROM INSEE. Retrieved 2008-12-10. 14. ^ "Greenland (Denmark)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply Denmark's HDI published on the 1997 report[citation needed]. 15. ^ The UN did not calculate the HDI of Macau. The government of Macau calculates its own HDI. If it were included in the UN's HDI figures as of 2007, Macau would rank 23rd or 24th (tying either Singapore or Hong Kong). "Macao in Figures 2010". Statistics and Census Service, Macau SAR. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-01. 16. ^ "2010 (HDI)" (in Chinese) (pdf). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 17. ^ "Human Development Report - Kosovo 2010". UNDP. 2010. p. 100. Retrieved 2011-11-26. 18. ^ "LIndice de Dveloppement Humain : Une valuation pour la runion" (in French) (PDF). Laboratoire dEconomie Applique au Dveloppement (LEAD) Universit du Sud Toulon-Var. Retrieved 2008-12-10.[dead link]
External links
Human Development Report 2011 Archive of Previous global reports. HDI 2011 Index (the first column). Data challenges in estimating the HDI: The cases of Cuba, Palau and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
(Adjusted to 2010 UNDP Data) High human development 1 Central Java 0.813 Macedonia 2 Jakarta 0.801 Mauritius Medium human development 3 Riau 0.791 Dominican Republic 4 Yogyakarta 0.777 Thailand 5 East Kalimantan 0.769 Jordan 6 North Sulawesi 0.765 Tonga 7 Central Kalimantan 0.763 Tonga 0.759 0.600 Indonesia 8 Riau Islands 0.748 El Salvador 9 West Sumatra 0.747 El Salvador 10 South Sumatra 0.736 Turkmenistan 11 Bangka Belitung 0.735 Turkmenistan 12 Bengkulu 0.729 Bolivia 13 Jambi 0.728 Bolivia 14 North Sumatra 0.725 Vietnam 15 West Java 0.719 Uzbekistan 16 Bali 0.715 Uzbekistan 17 Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam 0.713 Kyrgyzstan 18 East Java 0.710 Kyrgyzstan 19 Maluku 0.709 Kyrgyzstan 20 South Sulawesi 0.709 Kyrgyzstan 21 Lampung 0.709 Kyrgyzstan 22 Central Sulawesi 0.707 Cape Verde 23 Banten 0.704 Guatemala 24 West Kalimantan 0.702 Egypt 25 South East Sulawesi 0.701 Egypt 26 South Kalimantan 0.700 Tajikistan 27 West Sulawesi 0.696 Tajikistan
Comparable Country HDI (2009 data)[1] 28 Gorontalo 29 North Maluku 30 West Papua 31 East Nusa Tenggara 32 West Nusa Tenggara 33 Papua 0.696 0.696 0.685 0.683 0.656 0.655 (Adjusted to 2010 UNDP Data) Nicaragua Nicaragua South Africa South Africa Morocco Morocco
Education Index
Comparable Country EI (2009 data)[2] (Adjusted to 2010 UNDP Data) High human development 1 Yogyakarta 0.813 Brunei 2 Central Java 0.796 Turkey Medium human development 3 Jakarta 0.766 Thailand 4 Riau 0.765 Thailand 5 North Sulawesi 0.751 Belize 6 North Sulawesi 0.750 Belize 7 Central Kalimantan 0.743 Samoa 0.717 0.600 Indonesia 8 Riau Islands 0.738 Mauritius 9 West Sumatra 0.734 Mauritius 10 South Sumatra 0.726 Gabon 11 Bangka Belitung 0.725 12 East Java 0.725 13 West Java 0.724 14 North Sumatra 0.721 15 Jambi 0.716 16 Bali 0.715 17 Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam 0.713 18 Lampung 0.710 19 Maluku 0.709 20 South Sulawesi 0.709 21 Bengkulu 0.709 22 Central Sulawesi 0.707 23 Banten 0.700 Gabon Syria Syria Honduras Maldives Kyrgyzstan Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome and Principe So Tom and Prncipe Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome and Principe South Africa Syria
Comparable Country EI (2009 data)[2] 24 Gorontalo 25 South East Sulawesi 26 South Kalimantan 27 West Sulawesi 28 West Kalimantan 29 North Maluku 30 West Papua 31 East Nusa Tenggara 32 West Nusa Tenggara 33 Papua 0.697 0.695 0.693 0.691 0.687 0.686 0.685 0.666 0.646 0.645 (Adjusted to 2010 UNDP Data) Tajikistan Tajikistan Tajikistan Tajikistan Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Yemen India India
Expectancy Index
Comparable Country LE (2009 data) 1 Central Java 79.1 2 Jakarta 78.6 3 North Sulawesi 77.4 4 Riau 76.5 5 Yogyakarta 76.1 6 East Kalimantan 75.7 7 Central Kalimantan 75.3 71.8 Indonesia 8 South Sumatra 71.8 9 West Java 71.8 10 Riau Islands 70.6 11 Bangka Belitung 70.5 12 East Java 70.5 13 West Sumatra 70.4 14 North Sumatra 70.4 15 Jambi 70.0 16 Bali 70.0 17 Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam 70.0 18 Lampung 69.8 19 Maluku 69.8 20 South Sulawesi 69.8 21 North Maluku 69.8
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(Adjusted to 2010 UNDP Data) Belgium Ireland Kuwait Czech Republic Mexico Belize Argentina Indonesia Indonesia Honduras Honduras Honduras Honduras Honduras Vanuatu Vanuatu Vanuatu Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Comparable Country LE (2009 data)[3] 22 Central Sulawesi 23 Banten 24 Gorontalo 25 South East Sulawesi 26 South Kalimantan 27 West Sulawesi 28 West Kalimantan 29 Bengkulu 30 West Papua 31 East Nusa Tenggara 32 Papua 33 West Nusa Tenggara 65.5 65.5 65.5 65.5 65.5 65.5 63.8 63.8 63.8 63.8 63.8 62.1 (Adjusted to 2010 UNDP Data) So Tom and Prncipe So Tom and Prncipe So Tom and Prncipe So Tom and Prncipe So Tom and Prncipe So Tom and Prncipe India India India India India Myanmar