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PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT 2000 - SCOTLAND ANALYSIS
Disciplinary Climate
3. Comparison with the international data also shows that 15 year olds in Scotland were better disciplined at settling down to work than in most OECD countries. However, in all countries, there was a significant minority who felt that there was a problem with students making noise and not working well. PISA created an index of disciplinary climate based on responses to each of the questions listed in table 18. This showed that disciplinary climate was more positive in Scotland than on average and more positive than in the UK as a whole. However, the analysis also revealed that indiscipline had a very powerful impact on reading scores in Scotland.
Table 18. PISA index of disciplinary climate and change in the PISA reading literacy score, by country
| Disciplinary climate | PISA index of disciplinary climate | Change in the PISA combined reading literacy score per unit of the PISA index of disciplinary climate |
Percentage of students who report that in most or every test language lesson | Mean index |
the teacher has to wait a long time for students to quieten down | students cannot work well | students don't listen to what the teacher says | students don't start working for a long time after the lesson begins | there is noise and disorder | at the start of class, more than five minutes are spent doing nothing |
OECD countries |
Australia | 31 | 18 | 21 | 26 | 32 | 42 | -0.09 | 16.69 |
Austria | 32 | 20 | 21 | 29 | 19 | 38 | 0.19 | 4.98 |
Belgium | 35 | 14 | 23 | 30 | 36 | 51 | -0.12 | 3.15 |
Canada | 35 | 16 | 23 | 29 | 33 | 46 | -0.14 | 13.28 |
Czech Republic | 32 | 17 | 26 | 21 | 26 | 27 | 0.14 | 12.37 |
Denmark | 27 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 33 | 55 | -0.20 | 9.71 |
Finland | 39 | 15 | 29 | 21 | 42 | 44 | -0.16 | 9.56 |
France | 35 | 15 | 27 | 36 | 42 | 38 | -0.05 | 1.53 |
Germany | 36 | 23 | 24 | 27 | 22 | 34 | 0.10 | 10.13 |
Greece | 43 | 39 | 29 | 34 | 46 | 58 | -0.42 | 2.96 |
Hungary | 34 | 25 | 22 | 16 | 23 | 16 | 0.23 | 16.05 |
Iceland | 34 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 28 | 50 | -0.08 | 8.90 |
Ireland | 29 | 16 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 41 | 0.09 | 15.41 |
Italy | 48 | 22 | 35 | 29 | 46 | 49 | -0.24 | 14.11 |
Japan | 9 | 20 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 25 | 0.49 | 17.15 |
Korea | 17 | 21 | 32 | 23 | 29 | 32 | 0.20 | 6.88 |
Luxembourg | 31 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 36 | 0.12 | 2.41 |
Mexico | 28 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 24 | 23 | 0.17 | 2.03 |
New Zealand | 33 | 22 | 23 | 26 | 32 | 46 | -0.15 | 12.47 |
Norway | 42 | 23 | 27 | 33 | 39 | 56 | -0.36 | 7.79 |
Poland | 26 | 13 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 27 | 0.37 | 20.88 |
Portugal | 25 | 19 | 20 | 24 | 24 | 42 | -0.05 | 10.57 |
SCOTLAND | 24 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 25 | 42 | 0.12 | 19.03 |
Spain | 41 | 18 | 24 | 35 | 34 | 48 | -0.17 | 12.18 |
Sweden | 43 | 23 | 29 | 31 | 38 | 30 | -0.19 | 12.44 |
Switzerland | 27 | 18 | 18 | 23 | 18 | 27 | 0.30 | 9.81 |
United Kingdom | 31 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 27 | 41 | 0.02 | 20.10 |
United States | 26 | 17 | 24 | 23 | 28 | 37 | 0.03 | 13.17 |
OECD total | 28 | 18 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 35 | 0.09 | 11.99 |
Country mean | 32 | 19 | 24 | 25 | 30 | 39 | 0.00 | 9.45 |
Non-OECD countries |
Brazil | | 24 | 28 | 38 | 40 | 50 | -0.34 | -5.95 |
Latvia | | 17 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 21 | 0.38 | 9.04 |
Liechtenstein | | 21 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 21 | 0.35 | -2.59 |
Russian Federation | | 16 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 27 | 0.45 | 10.06 |
Chart 8. Percentage of students who report that in most or every test language lesson the teacher has to wait a long time for students to quieten down
Chart 9. Percentage of students who report that in most or every test language lesson students cannot work well
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