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Table 7 Correlation between student test-taking effort and student achievement in science
Country | Correlation between effort and achievement | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cluster 1 | Cluster 2 | Cluster 3 | Cluster 4 | |||||
\(\widehat{\uprho }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\uprho }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\uprho }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\uprho }\) | SE | |
AUS | 0.42 | 0.02 | 0.55 | 0.01 | 0.53 | 0.01 | 0.59 | 0.01 |
CAN | 0.39 | 0.02 | 0.44 | 0.02 | 0.50 | 0.02 | 0.55 | 0.01 |
GBR | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0.52 | 0.02 | 0.53 | 0.02 | 0.59 | 0.02 |
IRL | 0.37 | 0.02 | 0.44 | 0.02 | 0.45 | 0.02 | 0.50 | 0.02 |
NZL | 0.40 | 0.02 | 0.51 | 0.02 | 0.51 | 0.02 | 0.59 | 0.02 |
USA | 0.37 | 0.02 | 0.49 | 0.02 | 0.44 | 0.02 | 0.55 | 0.02 |