{"id":535,"date":"2016-04-28T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/?page_id=535"},"modified":"2016-11-30T00:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:45:44","slug":"multiple-comparisons-of-science-achievement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/student-achievement\/multiple-comparisons-of-science-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Comparisons of Average Science Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"carouselwrap\"><div id=\"menu-student-achievement-science\" class=\"carouselmenu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/student-achievement\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Student Achievement Overview<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/student-achievement\/distribution-of-science-achievement\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Distribution of Science Achievement<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/student-achievement\/multiple-comparisons-of-science-achievement\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Multiple Comparisons of Science Achievement<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/student-achievement\/trends-in-science-achievement\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Trends in Science Achievement<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/student-achievement\/relative-achievement-of-2011-fourth-grade-cohort-as-eighth-grade-students-in-2015\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Achievement of 2011 Fourth Grade Cohort as Eighth Grade Students<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/student-achievement\/average-science-achievement-by-gender\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Science Achievement by Gender<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/timss-2015\/science\/student-achievement\/trends-in-science-achievement-by-gender\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><span>Trends in Science Achievement by Gender<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div><\/div>\t<style>\n\t\t.carouselwrap{\n\t\t\tbackground: #e5eaef;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a{\n\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #00b2cc solid;\n\t\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a:hover,\n\t\t.owl-item a:focus,\n\t\t.owl-item a.current-menu-item{\n\t\t\tbackground: #00667f;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #00b2cc solid;\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tcolor: #ffffff;\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t\n<h2>Multiple Comparisons of Average Science Achievement<\/h2>\n<div class=\"su-expand su-expand-collapsed su-expand-link-style-underlined\" data-height=\"100\"><div class=\"su-expand-content su-u-trim\" style=\"color:#000000;max-height:100px;overflow:hidden\">Because there often are relatively small differences between countries, Exhibits 1.3 and 1.4 show whether the differences in average achievement among the countries are statistically significant.<\/p>\n<p>At the fourth grade, Singapore and Korea were the top performing countries, with similar achievement and higher achievement than all of the other countries. The next highest performing countries were Japan and the Russian Federation, which had higher achievement than all countries except the two with the highest achievement, followed by Hong Kong SAR, Chinese Taipei, Finland, and Kazakhstan. Poland, the United States, Slovenia, Hungary, and Sweden also performed very well.<\/p>\n<p>At the eighth grade, Singapore was the top performing country, followed by Japan and Chinese Taipei. The next highest performing countries were Korea and Slovenia, followed by Hong Kong SAR and the Russian Federation. England, Kazakhstan, Ireland, and the United States also performed very well.<\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-more\" style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#00A3C1;border-color:#00A3C1\"><i class=\"sui sui-plus\" style=\"\" aria-label=\"\"><\/i><span style=\"border-color:#00A3C1\">Show more<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-less\" style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#00A3C1;border-color:#00A3C1\"><i class=\"sui sui-minus\" style=\"\" aria-label=\"\"><\/i><span style=\"border-color:#00A3C1\">Show less<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIMSS 2015 International Results in Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":531,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-science.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-535","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535\/revisions\/4023"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timss2015.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}