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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - students don't start working for a long time after the lesson begins
Choices: "Never or hardly ever" "In some lessons" "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Data: % of "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 37.5%
2 Canada27.3%
3 Italy26.3%
4 Australia23.6%
5 Sweden23.5%
6 Germany19.0%
7 United Kingdom18.8%
8 United States18.4%
9 Republic of Korea12.6%
10 Japan8.6%

Note
Don't know/ No answer are excluded. China: Shanghai only.

Source
OECD PISA 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 2.318776 X +6.155
Correlation coefficient (r)0.454
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.206

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 29333.299425 X +42606.341
Correlation coefficient (r)0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -0.530667 X +82.114
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 2.086995 X +1.029
Correlation coefficient (r)0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -26.040141 X +16.714
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.459
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.211