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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%
5 France 47.4%
6 Germany43.7%
7 Italy34.7%
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 data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.394832 X +5.482
Correlation coefficient (r)0.891
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.794

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 116157.695836 X -2681.803
Correlation coefficient (r)0.814
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.663

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -14.783807 X +88.313
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.761
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.579

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.281834 X +0.885
Correlation coefficient (r)0.656
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.430

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 9.168473 X +5.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086