Special Analysis 2007

High School Coursetaking

Table SSA-3b. Standard errors for the average number of Carnegie units earned by high school graduates in various subject areas, by selected characteristics: 1982 and 2004—Continued

	Science
Graduation year and characteristic	Total	General science	Biology	Chemistry	Physics	Foreign languages	Arts	Vocational education

1982 graduates	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.07
Sex
Male	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.04	0.04	0.08
Female	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.04	0.04	0.08
Race/ethnicity
White	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.04	0.04	0.08
Black	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.06	0.06	0.13
Hispanic	0.04	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.04	0.05	0.11
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.12	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.10	0.12	0.22
American Indian/Alaska Native	0.09	0.08	0.12	0.09	0.04	0.11	0.33	0.23
Control of school
Public	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.04	0.06
Private	0.07	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.12	0.10	0.15

2004 graduates	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.04	0.06
Sex
Male	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.04	0.08
Female	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.04	0.06
Race/ethnicity
White	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.08
Black or African American	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.06	0.07	0.12
Hispanic	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.06	0.07	0.10
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.06	0.04	0.04	0.02	0.03	0.06	0.08	0.10
American Indian/Alaska Native	0.19	0.06	0.07	0.11	0.09	0.19	0.26	0.30
Control of school
Public	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.04	0.07
Private	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.07	0.11	0.07

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1980 Sophomores, “First Follow-up” (HS&B-So:80/82); National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/92), “Second Follow-up, High School Transcript Survey, 1992”; Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002/04), “High School Transcript Study”; and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1987, 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2000 High School Transcript Studies (HSTS).

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