NON-OECD MEAN d d2

Collect the data for the mean score ofMEAN

COUNTRIES the performance of all NON-OECD
SCORE countriesRANK that participated. You are
SCORE
to get the ranking on both categories IN
of Reading and Equity and IN
find if they are correlated and if they have
READING
significant RANK
relationship EQUITY
towards one another.
Albania 405 26 12.3 16 10 100
Argentina 402 28 8.5 32 -4 16
Baku (Azerbaijan) 389 33 16.5 3 30 900
Belarus 474 9 0 38 -29 841
Bosnia and 13.1 12 15 225
Herzegovina 403 27
Brazil 413 23 9.5 25 -2 4
Brunei Darussalam 408 24 9.5 26 -2 4
B-S-J-Z (China) 555 1 11.7 21 -20 400
Bulgaria 420 20 6.5 36 -16 256
Costa Rica 426 16 0 39 -23 529
Croatia 479 7 15.2 6 1 1
Cyprus 424 17 0 40 -23 529
Dominican Republic 342 41 12.3 17 24 576
Georgia 380 35 12.3 18 17 289
Hong Kong (China)* 524 4 16.5 4 0 0
Indonesia 371 37 13.7 8 29 841
Jordan 419 21 12.4 15 6 36
Kazakhstan 387 34 16 5 29 841
Kosovo 353 39 17.3 2 37 1369
Lebanon 353 40 9.1 30 10 100
Macao (China) 525 3 19.8 1 2 4
Malaysia 415 22 9.8 23 -1 1
Malta 448 11 13.3 9 2 4
Moldova 424 18 8.1 33 -15 225
Montenegro 421 19 14.3 7 12 144
Morocco 359 38 13.2 10 28 784
North Macedonia 393 31 13.1 13 18 324
Panama 377 36 9.2 29 7 49
Peru 401 29 6.2 37 -8 64
Philippines 340 42 7.7 34 8 64
Qatar 407 25 9.5 27 -2 4
Romania 428 14 8.8 31 -17 289
Russia 479 8 0 41 -33 1089
Saudi Arabia 399 30 10.7 22 8 64
Serbia 439 12 13.2 11 1 1
Singapore 549 2 9.7 24 -22 484
Taipei (China) 503 6 11.8 19 -13 169
Thailand 393 32 12.5 14 18 324
Ukraine 466 10 11.8 20 -10 100
United Arab Emirates 432 13 7.2 35 -22 484
Uruguay 427 15 9.5 28 -13 169
Viet Nam 505 5 0 42 -37 1369
14,066

n
6 ∑ d2
P = 1− i=1
2
Using the table of values for correlation coefficient, -0.14
implies negligible negative correlation. However, a further
n(n −1)
test is needed to determine its significance.
6 (14,066)
P = 1− 42( 42 −1)2

84,396
P = 1− 42(1,763)
84,396
P = 1− 74,046
P = 1- 1.14
P = - 0.14
 Degrees of freedom = n – 2 = 42 – 2 = 40
Alpha level= 0.05
Critical value = 0.264
Critical Values of the Spearman’s Ranked Correlation Coefficient (𝑟𝑠)

Table of Significance:
Using the table of values of Spearman Rank Correlation, the computed ρ of -0.14 is less than the tabular
value of 0.264 at 5% level of significance and at 40 degrees of freedom, we can say that there is no enough
evidence to completely reject the null hypothesis. Therefore, the null hypothesis indicating that there is no
significant relationship between Reading and Equity is accepted.