Dubai girl students among the world's best

Dubai's 15-year-old students have been ranked among the best globally according to the findings of an international test, released on Tuesday, that examines reading, mathematical and scientific literacy among students.

The programme called Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) is principally an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) study, and provides international comparisons of average performance in reading literacy, in mathematics literacy and science literacy.

Dubai teen students, who participated in the Pisa programme for the first time in 2009, were ranked 10th among 31 non-OECD countries on combined reading literacy scale, scoring an average 459 out of 1,000.

Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore were ranked top three among non-OECD countries on combined reading literacy scale.
The study also showed a wide difference between the average scores of 15-year-old male and female students in Dubai on combined reading literacy scale.

While the average score of female students was 485, male students trailed by a wide margin scoring just 435 on average out of 1,000.
Columbia topped in non-OECD countries with the least difference between the average scores of 15-year-old male and female students on combined reading literacy scale, followed by Peru and Azerbaijan.

Qatar was the only other GCC country that was part of the Pisa programme
apart from the UAE.

Further, among 31 non-OECD countries, Dubai's 15-year-old students also ranked 11th both on the mathematics literacy scale as well as on science literacy scale, scoring an average of 453 and 466 out of 100 respectively.

Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, and Liechtenstein ranked among top five on science literacy scale, while Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, and Liechtenstein topped on the mathematics literacy scale among non-OECD countries.