Pucette<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pucette<FONT><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"Qui ne connaît pas la campagne lhiver, ne connaît pas la campagne et ne connaît pas Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 mrpph kindly posted this site in the postbag: http://web.hhs.se/personal/suzuki/#edIt gives various types of literacy among 15-year-olds in 2000 as a mean value of performance scale, here are the top countries, UK and FranceReading1 Finland 5467 UK 52313 France 505Mathematical1 Japan 5577 UK 52910 France 517Scientific1 S Korea 5524 UK 53212 France 500It also gives the number of frequent long-text readers 1 NZ 39,4%3 UK 35%20 France 16,6% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 I found the UNESCO site last night, but couldn't read their figures. No excel http://www.uis.unesco.org/en/stats/statistics/literacy2000.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 I saw that, and I wasn't sure what to make of it, mostly because all of these statistics have been 'interpreted' so many times to prove particular points of view. On the face of it the UK does better than France, and in some cases Germany, and in almost all cases the USA (different datasets, though) - yet in the UK we are always being told to raise our standards to those of Germany and France and our models often come from the US.I would like to see some research on what causes the differences, whether it is the teaching and learning cultiure, spending rates, social attitudes or whatever.Interesting about the French reading extended texts, though.RegardsDick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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