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Average mathematics scale scores, by student-reported parents' highest level of education, grade 8: 1990–2003

Average mathematics scale scores, by student-reported parents' highest level of education, less than high school, grade 8: 1990–2003   Average mathematics scale scores, by student-reported parents' highest level of education, graduated high school, grade 8: 1990–2003  
Average mathematics scale scores, by student-reported parents' highest level of education, some education after high school, grade 8: 1990–2003   Average mathematics scale scores, by student-reported parents' highest level of education, graduated college, grade 8: 1990–2003  

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* Significantly different from 2003.
NOTE: In addition to allowing for accommodations, the accommodations-permitted results (1996–2003) differ slightly from previous years' results and from previously reported results for 1996 and 2000, due to changes in sample weighting procedures.
Significance tests were performed using unrounded numbers. NAEP sample sizes have increased in 2003 compared to previous years, resulting in smaller detectable differences than in previous assessments.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2003 Mathematics Assessments.   


Major Findings

  • Higher levels of parental education were associated with higher average mathematics scores.
  • The average score for eighth grade students was higher in 2003 than in 1990 and in 2000, regardless of the level of parental education reported.

See the achievement-level results by student-reported parents' highest level of education for grade 8.

View average mathematics scale scores, by student-reported parents' highest level of education and type of school, grade 8.

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Last updated 20 October 2003 (SW)