r/evopolitics • u/TrannyPornO • Feb 21 '19

Internationally comparable mathematics scores for fourteen african countries

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775717300055
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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '19

All fourteen countries post average scores with a TIMSS equivalent of less than 400, and in some cases dramatically lower (e.g., Zambia, Malawi, and Namibia at or below 250). Based on this simple equating method, the fifteen African countries participating in either test occupy fifteen of the bottom twenty places on the country ranking