Elementary and Secondary Education

Assessments

Table S-13-1. Standard Errors for the Average mathematics scale scores and selected achievement gaps of 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students, by sex and race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1990-2009

Sex and race/ethnicity	1990	1992	1996	1996	2000	2003	2005	2007	2009
Grade 4
Total	0.9	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2
Sex
Male	1.2	0.8	1.1	1.1	1.0	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3
Female	1.1	1.0	1.0	1.1	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3
Male-Female achievement gap	1.7	1.2	1.5	1.6	1.4	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4

Race/ethnicity
White	1.0	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2
Black	1.8	1.4	2.4	1.6	1.2	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3
Hispanic	2.2	1.5	3.0	1.9	1.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4
Asian/Pacific Islander	4.1	2.1	4.3	4.2	†	1.1	0.7	0.8	1.0
American Indian/Alaska Native	†	†	†	5.6	3.5	1.0	0.9	0.7	0.9
Black-White achievement gap	2.0	1.6	2.6	1.8	1.5	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4
Hispanic-White achievement gap	2.4	1.7	3.1	2.1	1.7	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.5

Grade 8
Total	1.3	0.9	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3
Sex
Male	1.6	1.1	1.4	1.1	0.9	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3
Female	1.3	1.0	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4
Male-Female achievement gap	2.1	1.5	1.7	1.5	1.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5

Race/ethnicity
White	1.3	1.0	1.2	1.1	0.8	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3
Black	2.7	1.3	2.0	1.9	1.2	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5
Hispanic	4.3	1.2	2.4	1.7	1.3	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	5.0	5.9	†	†	3.5	1.3	0.9	0.9	1.2
American Indian/Alaska Native	†	†	†	†	7.5	1.8	0.9	1.2	1.1
Black-White achievement gap	3.0	1.7	2.3	2.2	1.5	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.5
Hispanic-White achievement gap	4.5	1.5	2.7	2.0	1.6	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.6

Grade 12
Total	†	†	†	†	†	†	0.6	†	0.7
Sex
Male	†	†	†	†	†	†	0.7	†	0.9
Female	†	†	†	†	†	†	0.7	†	0.7
Male-Female achievement gap	†	†	†	†	†	†	1.0	†	1.1

Race/ethnicity
White	†	†	†	†	†	†	0.6	†	0.6
Black	†	†	†	†	†	†	1.1	†	0.8
Hispanic	†	†	†	†	†	†	1.3	†	0.8
Asian/Pacific Islander	†	†	†	†	†	†	2.0	†	2.7
American Indian/Alaska Native	†	†	†	†	†	†	4.1	†	2.8
Black-White achievement gap	†	†	†	†	†	†	1.2	†	1.0
Hispanic-White achievement gap	†	†	†	†	†	†	1.4	†	1.0
† Not applicable.
1 Testing accommodations (e.g., extended time, small group testing) for children with disabilities and English language learners were not permitted in 1990 and 1992. Students in 4th and 8th grade were tested with and without accommodations in 1996. The footnoted column represents the sample without accommodations.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), selected years, 1990–2009 Mathematics Assessments, NAEP Data Explorer.

Would you like to help us improve our products and website by taking a short survey?

YES, I would like to take the survey

or

No Thanks

The survey consists of a few short questions and takes less than one minute to complete.