Skip navigation
Skip Navigation
Click for menu... About NAEP... Click for menu... Subject Areas... Help Site Map Contact Us Glossary NewsFlash
Sample Questions Analyze Data State Profiles Publications Search the Site
Reading
The Nation's Report Card (home page)

Average Fourth-Grade Reading Scale Scores for Male and Female Students: 1992-2000

Average Fourth-Grade Reading Scale Scores for Male and Female Students: 1992-2000

SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), 1992-2000 Reading Assessments.

  • Although scores have fluctuated slightly over the assessment years, there have been no significant changes for either boys or girls.
  • In 2000, as well as in the previous assessment years, girls continued to outperform boys.

Find out about trends in score gaps between boys and girls.

Look at achievement-level results for boys and girls.

See the next result from the 2000 reading assessment.

Return to main results.

Last updated 28 March 2001 (CLH)