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National Mathematics Scale Score Results: 1990-2000

National Mathematics Scale Score Results: 1990-2000

Blue Star for Footnote Significantly different from 2000.
SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1990, 1992, 1996, and 2000 Mathematics Assessments.

Major Findings

  • Students in all three grades (4, 8, and 12) had higher average scores in 2000 than in 1990, the first assessment year in which the current mathematics framework was used.
  • Fourth- and eighth-graders showed steady progress across the decade. Twelfth-graders made gains from 1990 to 1996, but their average score declined between 1996 and 2000.

See achievement level results for grade 4, grade 8, and grade 12.

Explore scale score results by percentiles for grade 4, grade 8, and grade 12.

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Last updated 29 July 2001 (CLH)