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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:
73 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation75.2%
2 Kazakhstan 74.5%
3 India69.1%
4 Kyrgyzstan68.4%
5 Georgia65.7%
6 Montenegro65.5%
7 Azerbaijan64.1%
8 Albania61.5%
9 Thailand60.2%
10 United Arab Emirates59.2%
11 Trinidad and Tobago59.1%
12 United States59.0%
13 Peru58.3%
14 Jordan57.6%
15 Chile57.1%
16 Moldova56.8%
17 Qatar55.9%
18 Malaysia55.7%
19 Tunisia55.3%
20 Bulgaria54.9%
21 Poland54.8%
22 United Kingdom54.6%
23 Panama53.3%
24 Canada53.1%
25 Turkiye52.8%
26 Hungary52.2%
27 Serbia51.5%
28 Latvia51.3%
28 Lithuania51.3%
30 Colombia51.1%
31 Brazil50.8%
32 Portugal50.5%
33 Australia50.3%
34 China50.0%
35 Denmark49.6%
35 New Zealand49.6%
37 Mauritius49.3%
38 Indonesia49.1%
39 Slovenia48.3%
40 Malta48.1%
40 Taiwan48.1%
42 Venezuela47.5%
43 Croatia47.4%
43 France47.4%
45 Romania47.0%
46 Ireland45.7%
47 Mexico45.3%
48 Uruguay45.0%
49 Singapore44.8%
50 Germany43.7%
51 Argentina42.7%
52 Luxembourg42.3%
53 Costa Rica41.0%
54 Switzerland40.6%
55 Greece39.9%
56 Estonia39.8%
57 Spain39.6%
58 Slovakia39.1%
59 Liechtenstein38.5%
60 Hong Kong, China38.0%
61 Austria37.8%
62 Israel36.0%
63 Iceland35.6%
64 Italy34.7%
64 Netherlands34.7%
66 Sweden34.6%
67 Belgium33.8%
68 Czech Republic33.1%
69 Republic of Korea33.0%
70 Macao, China30.8%
71 Japan29.4%
72 Norway27.6%
73 Finland24.3%

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

No data for 165 countries.

Source
OECD PISA 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data69
Regression equation
Y = -4.395233 X +8.390
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.564
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.318

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = -122307.060924 X +90979.243
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = -25.105316 X +90.678
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.706
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.498

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = 1.639238 X +0.890
Correlation coefficient (r)0.417
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.174

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data69
Regression equation
Y = -5.868191 X +13.854
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012