| Table 124. | Among public secondary school music and visual arts specialists who reported that they used various types of assessments to determine student progress and achievement in the arts, percent and standard error reporting that they used the assessment to a moderate or great extent, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 (Table 124—Continued) |
| School characteristic | Observation | Selected-response assessments (i.e., multiple choice, matching) |
Assessments requiring short written answers or essays | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music specialist |
Visual arts specialist | Music specialist |
Visual arts specialist | Music specialist |
Visual arts specialist | |||||||
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public secondary school music and visual arts specialists |
97 | (0.5) | 96 | (0.6) | 38 | (1.6) | 31 | (1.4) | 36 | (1.6) | 54 | (1.5) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||
| Less than 500 | 96 | (1.3) | 97 | (1.1) | 36 | (3.2) | 28 | (3.0) | 32 | (3.3) | 47 | (3.2) |
| 500 to 999 | 98 | (0.7) | 97 | (1.0) | 41 | (3.1) | 27 | (2.5) | 35 | (2.7) | 52 | (3.2) |
| 1,000 or more | 97 | (0.9) | 96 | (1.0) | 38 | (2.4) | 35 | (2.6) | 39 | (2.6) | 59 | (2.5) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||
| City | 97 | (1.6) | 97 | (1.1) | 44 | (3.7) | 30 | (2.9) | 41 | (3.9) | 61 | (3.0) |
| Suburban | 98 | (0.8) | 95 | (1.2) | 37 | (3.1) | 32 | (2.6) | 36 | (2.9) | 59 | (2.8) |
| Town | 97 | (1.1) | 96 | (1.6) | 34 | (3.9) | 26 | (3.3) | 32 | (4.1) | 42 | (4.3) |
| Rural | 96 | (1.2) | 96 | (1.1) | 38 | (3.0) | 31 | (2.7) | 33 | (2.9) | 49 | (3.1) |
| Region | ||||||||||||
| Northeast | 95 | (1.4) | 99 | (0.8) | 35 | (4.2) | 25 | (3.2) | 38 | (3.9) | 60 | (3.4) |
| Southeast | 96 | (1.3) | 97 | (1.0) | 43 | (3.6) | 41 | (3.1) | 38 | (3.2) | 53 | (3.5) |
| Central | 98 | (0.8) | 95 | (1.6) | 41 | (3.1) | 31 | (2.4) | 37 | (3.0) | 53 | (3.2) |
| West | 98 | (1.0) | 95 | (1.4) | 35 | (3.0) | 29 | (3.3) | 30 | (2.6) | 48 | (3.2) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities 2 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 97 | (1.2) | 95 | (1.5) | 41 | (3.9) | 30 | (3.1) | 37 | (3.9) | 51 | (3.6) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 97 | (0.9) | 98 | (1.0) | 38 | (2.3) | 28 | (3.3) | 33 | (3.4) | 52 | (3.7) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 96 | (1.1) | 96 | (1.1) | 32 | (2.8) | 30 | (3.2) | 31 | (2.7) | 55 | (3.6) |
| 50 percent or more | 97 | (1.2) | 95 | (1.6) | 43 | (3.2) | 35 | (3.2) | 42 | (3.8) | 57 | (3.4) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced- price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 99 | (0.5) | 98 | (0.8) | 39 | (2.4) | 30 | (2.8) | 36 | (2.9) | 58 | (2.7) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 96 | (0.9) | 95 | (1.2) | 37 | (2.6) | 29 | (2.3) | 32 | (2.6) | 48 | (2.7) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 94 | (1.8) | 96 | (1.5) | 36 | (3.3) | 32 | (3.3) | 35 | (3.3) | 55 | (3.7) |
| 76 percent or more | 99 | (1.5) | 95 | (3.2) | 46 | (5.6) | 38 | (6.6) | 49 | (5.9) | 54 | (5.1) |
| See notes at end of table. |
