Average science scale scores by student-reported parents' highest level of education, grades 8 and 12 (public and nonpublic schools combined): 1996 and 2000

Significantly different from 2000.
NOTE: Fourth-graders were not asked to report their parents' education level.
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 Findings

• At grade 8, none of the apparent changes in average scores between 1996 and 2000 were statistically significant at any level of parental education.
• At grade 12, scores declined between 1996 and 2000 among students whose parents graduated high school or had some education after high school.
• In 2000, eighth- and twelfth-graders whose parents graduated college had higher scores, on average, than their peers whose parents had lower levels of education.

See the achievement-level results by student-reported parents' highest level of education for grade 8 and grade 12.

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Last updated 15 November 2001 (CLH)