Science achievement-level results by student-reported parents' highest level of education, grade 12 (public and nonpublic schools combined): 1996 and 2000

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

Significantly different from 2000.
Percentage is between 0.0 and 0.5.
NOTE: NAEP reports assessment results in terms of student performance standards called "achievement levels," which are set by the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB). The three levels for each grade are Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. See more information about the science achievement levels.
Percentages within each science achievement-level range may not add to 100, or to the exact percentages at or above achievement levels, due to rounding.
Results are based on administration procedures that did not permit accommodations.
SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1996 and 2000 Science Assessments.

Major Finding

• For twelfth-graders whose parents had some education after high school or who graduated college, the percentage at or above the Basic achievement level decreased between 1996 and 2000.

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Last updated 15 November 2001 (CLH)