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National Mathematics Achievement-Level Results*, Grade 12: 1990-2000

Percentage of Students Within Each Achievement Level and At or Above Achievement Levels

How to Read This Figure
Bullet The italicized percentages to the right of the shaded bars represent the percentages of students at or above Basic and Proficient.
Bullet The percentages in the shaded bars represent the percentages of students within each achievement level.

National Mathematics Achievement-Level Results, Grade 12: 1990-2000

Green Star for Footnote Significantly different from 2000.
NOTE: Percentages within each mathematics achievement level range may not add to 100, or to the exact percentages at or above achievement levels, due to rounding.
SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1990, 1992, 1996, and 2000 Mathematics Assessments.

Major Findings

  • The percentage of twelfth-graders at or above Proficient increased from 12 percent in 1990
    to 17 percent in 2000.
  • The percentage of twelfth-graders at or above Basic increased from 58 percent in 1990
    to 65 percent in 2000.

See the national achievement-level results in mathematics across years for grade 4 and grade 8.

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* NAEP reports assessment results in terms of student performance standards called "achievement levels," which are set by the National Assessment Governing Board. The three levels for each grade are Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. See more information about the mathematics achievement levels.
Last updated 29 July 2001 (CLH)