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Question: Thinking about your teaching in the class, how often do you the following: I refer to a problem from everyday life or work to demonstrate why new knowledge is useful.
Choices: "Never or almost never" "Occasionally" "Frequently" "Always"
Data: % of "Frequently" "Always"
Period:
Area:
48 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal93.10%
2 Colombia92.05%
3 China91.70%
4 Brazil91.35%
5 Croatia90.12%
6 Mexico89.17%
7 Latvia88.51%
8 Chile88.23%
9 Viet Nam87.20%
10 Lithuania87.14%
11 Turkiye86.63%
12 United Arab Emirates84.98%
13 Hungary84.70%
14 Taiwan84.32%
15 South Africa83.47%
16 Romania83.07%
17 Cyprus82.54%
18 Italy82.52%
19 Kazakhstan82.40%
20 Republic of Korea82.12%
21 Bulgaria81.92%
22 Spain81.24%
23 Slovenia80.06%
24 Russian Federation79.45%
25 Saudi Arabia77.81%
26 Malta77.29%
27 Argentina74.81%
28 Austria74.76%
29 Canada74.58%
30 Georgia74.42%
31 New Zealand72.62%
32 Australia72.10%
33 Slovakia71.97%
34 United States71.34%
35 Israel71.19%
36 Singapore70.85%
37 Czech Republic69.17%
38 Belgium68.35%
39 Estonia68.20%
40 Finland 68.19%
41 Norway66.52%
42 United Kingdom65.17%
43 Netherlands64.25%
44 Denmark60.90%
45 Sweden58.56%
46 France57.54%
47 Japan53.91%
48 Iceland40.50%

Note
Argentina: Buenos Aires only. Canada: Alberta only. China: ShangHai only. United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 190 countries.

Source
OECD (2019) TALIS 2018 Results (Volume I) Table I.2.1

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data48
Regression equation
Y = -3.158520 X +8.896
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.578
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.334

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data48
Regression equation
Y = -134553.031897 X +139372.244
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.674
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.454

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data47
Regression equation
Y = -18.018557 X +92.598
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.468
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.219

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data47
Regression equation
Y = 0.136011 X +1.502
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data47
Regression equation
Y = -4.601193 X +13.553
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011