Student Achievement

Because there often were relatively small differences in achievement between countries, Exhibit 1.2 shows whether the differences in average achievement among the countries are statistically significant. The top part of the exhibit shows the results for ePIRLS. Singapore was the top-performing country, followed by Norway and Ireland, which had higher achievement than all the other participating countries except Singapore. Sweden, Denmark, and the United States also performed very well on ePIRLS.

For comparison purposes, the bottom part of the exhibit shows the PIRLS comparisons for the ePIRLS participants. In this case, Singapore was the top-performing country, followed by Ireland, Norway, Chinese Taipei, and Sweden.