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Question: Thinking about your teaching in the class, how often do you the following: I refer to a problem from everyday life or work to demonstrate why new knowledge is useful.
Choices: "Never or almost never" "Occasionally" "Frequently" "Always"
Data: % of "Frequently" "Always"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal93.10%
2 Colombia92.05%
3 Mexico89.17%
4 Latvia88.51%
5 Chile88.23%
6 Lithuania87.14%
7 Turkiye86.63%
8 Hungary84.70%
9 Italy82.52%
10 Republic of Korea82.12%
11 Spain81.24%
12 Slovenia80.06%
13 Austria74.76%
14 Canada74.58%
15 New Zealand72.62%
16 Australia72.10%
17 Slovakia71.97%
18 United States71.34%
19 Israel71.19%
20 Czech Republic69.17%
21 Belgium68.35%
22 Estonia68.20%
23 Finland68.19%
24 Norway66.52%
25 United Kingdom65.17%
26 Netherlands64.25%
27 Denmark60.90%
28 Sweden58.56%
29 France57.54%
30 Japan 53.91%
31 Iceland40.50%

Note
Argentina: Buenos Aires only. Canada: Alberta only. China: ShangHai only. United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 7 countries.

Source
OECD (2019) TALIS 2018 Results (Volume I) Table I.2.1

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -2.934081 X +8.839
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.599
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.359

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -120344.084600 X +129672.720
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.657
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.432

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -17.476102 X +92.625
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -0.525380 X +1.996
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -4.043181 X +13.255
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.114
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013