Average U.S. history scale scores by gender, grades 4, 8, and 12 (public and nonpublic schools combined): 1994 and 2001

Significantly different from 1994.
NOTE: Italicized scale score values indicate that two or more groups had the same rounded average score.
The average scale scores, when rounded, were the same for male and female students at grade 4 in 2001 and grade 8 in 1994.
At grade 4, the indicating statistical significance applies to both males' and females' 2001 average score.
Results are based on administration procedures that did not permit accommodations.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1994 and 2001 U.S. History Assessments.

Major Findings

• At grade 4, both male and female students had higher average scores in 2001 than in 1994.

• At grade 8, only male students had higher average scores in 2001 than in 1994.

• At grade 12, there was no statistically significant change for either males or females between 1994 and 2001.

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Last updated 3 May 2002 (DSS)