Outliers: The Story of Success · chapter 8 · id outliers-c8-04-timss-and-pisa-data-consistent

“TIMSS and PISA data consistently show East Asian countries at the top of international math rankings, supporting the cultural explanation.”

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TIMSS 2019 Results -- IEAsource alive

8th grade math 2019: Singapore 616, South Korea 607, Taiwan 612, Japan 594, Hong Kong 578. International average: 500.

PISA 2022 Results -- OECDpaywalled — manual check queued

PISA 2022 math: Singapore 575, Macao 552, Taiwan 547, Japan 536, Korea 527, OECD avg 472. Non-rice-paddy high performers: Estonia 510, Switzerland 508, Netherlands 493.

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