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Asia-Pacific Science Education

Table 5 Statistics of the composite variables for fourth graders in South Korea, Turkey, and the United States

From: Exploring the roles of students’ home resources and attitudes towards science in science achievement: a comparison of South Korea, Turkey, and the United States in TIMSS 2015

Composite Variables

South Korea

(HR N = 4575)

(ATS N = 4502)

Turkey

(HR N = 5254)

(ATS N = 6085)

United States

(HR N = 9168)

(ATS N = 9009)

M

S.D.

M

S.D.

M

S.D.

Home Resources (HR) (2: Minimum; 16: Maximum)

11.71

2.20

8.60

2.92

10.97

2.41

Attitudes Towards Science (ATS) (16: Minimum; 64: Maximum)

49.96

9.25

58.14

7.03

53.93

9.94

  1. Data were collected from the TIMSS 2015 International Results in Science report (Martin et al., 2016a). ‘HR’ represents ‘Home Resources’ and ‘ATS’ represents ‘Attitudes Towards Science’. The N varies between HR and ATS in each country due to differences in the number of participants in each section of the student background questionnaire
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