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Programme for international student assessment 2000 — scotland analysis

PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT 2000 - SCOTLAND ANALYSIS

Interest in Computers

11. In Scotland, both male and female students showed more interest in computers than in the OECD as a whole. Eighty seven per cent of females and 95 per cent of males found playing or working with a computer really fun.

Table 38. PISA index of interest in computers, by gender, by country

	PISA index of interest in computers		It is important to work with a computer		Playing or working with a computer is really fun		Student uses computer because it interests them		Student forgets the time when working with a computer
	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males
Australia	-0.41	-0.04	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Australia	-0.41	-0.04	64	72	74	87	52	71	52	58
Belgium	-0.22	0.18	60	73	87	94	62	78	58	72
Canada	-0.24	0.07	58	70	82	90	58	76	65	68
Czech Republic	-0.21	0.14	61	69	85	93	68	81	57	70
Denmark	-0.66	0.18	49	75	74	94	37	77	47	70
Finland	-0.39	0.10	47	66	78	92	68	85	50	63
Germany	0.04	0.43	69	84	89	96	70	87	73	83
Hungary	-0.21	0.14	58	69	84	90	64	81	61	71
Ireland	-0.02	0.02	55	58	92	94	72	75	75	74
Luxembourg	0.12	0.45	70	83	88	93	74	88	77	86
Mexico	0.29	0.27	88	89	87	88	84	84	87	85
New Zealand	-0.41	-0.15	55	63	78	87	54	69	55	56
Scotland	0.03	0.26	69	76	87	95	69	83	72	73
Sweden	-0.18	0.29	59	81	79	95	74	88	59	67
Switzerland	-0.12	0.24	60	76	83	91	65	82	70	78
United States	0.33	0.29	89	84	94	89	78	83	73	73
*Country mean*	*-0.14*	*0.18*	63	74	84	92	66	80	64	72
Brazil	0.34	0.39	93	93	95	95	91	94	69	70
Latvia	0.28	0.34	79	77	93	92	90	91	74	81
Liechtenstein	-0.02	0.35	69	81	84	92	68	89	69	78
Russian Federation	0.18	0.18	77	75	92	92	90	90	80	85

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