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Table 6 Estimated BFLP effect in the six countries and two PISA cycles

From: Contextual effects on students’ achievement and academic self-concept in the Nordic and Chinese educational systems

Countries	PISA 2000		PISA 2018
Countries	estimate	z-value	estimate	z-value
Denmark	− .16	− 1.28	− .32	− 3.69
Finland	− .17	− 2.08	− .21	− 2.01
Norway	− .37	− 2.93	− .32	− 3.75
Sweden	− .68	− 3.38	− .41	− 3.73
Hong Kong	− .24	− 4.00	− .14	− 3.40
B-S-J-Z (China)	–	–	− .23	− 7.86

Estimates in Italic are not statistically significant, p < .05
B-S-J-Z (China) Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang

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