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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - the teacher poses questions that motivate students to participate actively
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 United States69.5%
2 United Kingdom66.0%
3 Canada64.7%
4 Australia61.1%
5 Sweden60.9%
6 Italy59.0%
7 Germany56.6%
8 France 54.2%
9 Japan40.3%
10 Republic of Korea36.2%

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 = 2.827107 X +5.047
Correlation coefficient (r)0.740
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.548

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 98484.054513 X -7057.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.739
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.546

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -13.157582 X +89.480
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.618
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.382

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 1.871771 X +0.415
Correlation coefficient (r)0.682
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.465

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -22.082016 X +23.654
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.519
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.269