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Question: How much do you agree with these statements about your mathematics lessons? - I know what my teacher expects me to do.
Choices: "Agree a lot" "Agree a little" "Disagree a little" "Disagree a lot"
Data: % of "Agree a lot"
Period:
Area:
39 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States66.3%
2 South Africa60.3%
3 Israel59.6%
4 Iran59.1%
5 Egypt58.9%
5 Romania58.9%
7 Turkiye57.5%
8 Jordan55.9%
9 Lebanon54.3%
10 Georgia54.0%
11 United Kingdom53.0%
12 United Arab Emirates52.0%
13 Australia51.4%
14 Ireland47.6%
15 Hungary47.3%
16 Bahrain46.9%
17 Kuwait46.2%
18 Cyprus46.0%
19 New Zealand45.2%
20 Taiwan44.7%
21 Qatar44.6%
21 Saudi Arabia44.6%
23 Singapore42.1%
24 Portugal40.9%
25 Oman39.7%
26 Morocco 37.7%
26 Norway37.7%
28 Finland37.6%
29 Italy36.8%
30 Malaysia34.1%
31 Lithuania33.0%
32 France32.2%
33 Hong Kong, China31.5%
34 Russian Federation31.0%
35 Chile29.3%
36 Kazakhstan29.0%
37 Sweden27.0%
38 Republic of Korea9.6%
39 Japan5.9%

Note
United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 199 countries.

Source
TIMSS 2019 > International Database > TIMSS 2019 Data Almanacs - Grade 8

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -1.447275 X +6.729
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -11733.104367 X +39595.842
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -12.790906 X +84.083
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 1.693494 X +1.092
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -24.506162 X +21.347
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228