Exploring International Educational Attainment and Quantitative Data

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Exploring International Educational Attainment and Quantitative Data

Subject

The quantitative correlations between countries and their students' performances in 4th-grade science.

Description

We took a close look at data relating to countries' GDPs and expenditures and compared that data to the performances of certain countries. To learn more about our process and discoveries, please watch the video.

Creator

Josh Reed

Collection Items

Expenditure Data Per Capita
This database provides information on the expenditures and GDPs per capita of each country. Using this database, we were able to draw correlations between expenditures of a country and their test scores in 4th-grade science.

TIMSS Average Science Achievement and Scale Score Distributions
This database provides statistics of academic performances in 4th-grade science per country. We used it as an academic reflection for the countries we analyzed so we could draw correlations between academic performance and expenditures.

Public Expenditure on Education per Country
This database provides information regarding each country's public expenditures on education throughout the years. With this data, we were able to search for any possible correlations between spending on education and test performance.

Expenditure Per Capita
This infographic is a scatterplot of TIMSS 2019 data and expenditure per capita. The line of best fit helps display the correlation between the two.

Calculated Expenditure per Capita (With Percentiles)
This is a visualization of the TIMSS percentiles and expenditure per capita.
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