There was no data for Malaysia. Funny, since Indonesia and Thailand were in the list. We must have been late for that class.
The program tested 540,000, 15-year-old students in 72 countries and economies on the areas of science, reading, maths, and collaborative problem-solving. You can view the full results at PISA. While you're looking for our country on that map, here are a few other things the study found:
1. Gender differences in science tend to be smaller than in reading and mathematics but, on average, in 33 countries and economies, the share of top performers in science is larger among boys than among girls.
2. Poorer students are 3 times more likely to be low performers than wealthier students, and immigrant students are more than twice as likely as non-immigrants to be low achievers.
3. More than one in four students in Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Guangdong (China), Hong Kong (China), Singapore and Chinese Taipei are top-performing students in mathematics, a higher share than anywhere else. It's true what they say, no matter how good you are, there's always a Chinese person somewhere doing a better job than you.
4. How much time students spend learning and how science is taught are even more strongly associated with science performance and the expectations of pursuing a science-related career than how well-equipped and staffed the science department is and science teachers’ qualifications.
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