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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - the teacher shows students how the information in texts builds on what they already know
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 States59.0%
2 United Kingdom54.6%
3 Canada53.1%
4 Australia50.3%
5 France 47.4%
6 Germany43.7%
7 Italy34.7%
8 Sweden34.6%
9 Republic of Korea33.0%
10 Japan29.4%

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 = 1.885589 X +5.825
Correlation coefficient (r)0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 99878.198826 X +5004.168
Correlation coefficient (r)0.723
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.523

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -15.761089 X +88.932
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.715
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.511

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 1.630754 X +0.762
Correlation coefficient (r)0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -8.150300 X +14.685
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034