Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 33
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 9-year-olds | 13-year-olds | 17-year-olds\1\ Selected characteristics |-----------------------|-----------------------|----------------------- of students |1971 |1980 |1990 |1992 |1971 |1980 |1990 |1992 |1971 |1980 |1990 |1992 --------------------------|-----|-----|-----| ----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|----- Total .................. 208 215 209 211 255 259 257 260 285 286 290 290 Sex Male ................... 201 210 204 206 250 254 251 254 279 282 284 284 Female ................. 214 220 215 215 261 263 263 265 291 289 297 296 Race/ethnicity White .................. 214 221 217 218 261 264 262 266 291 293 297 297 Black .................. 170 189 182 185 222 233 242 238 239 243 267 261 Hispanic ............... (\2\) 190 189 192 (\2\) 237 238 239 (\2\) 261 275 271 Parental education (as reported by students\3\) Not high school graduate 189 194 193 195 238 239 241 239 261 262 270 271 Graduated high school .. 208 213 209 207 256 254 251 252 283 278 283 281 Post high school ....... 224 226 218 220 270 271 267 270 302 299 300 299 Reading materials in the home/4/ Less than 2 items....... 186 --- 196 197 227 --- 240 241 246 --- 271 269 3 items................. 208 --- 211 214 249 --- 255 256 274 --- 286 286 4 items................. 223 --- 226 224 267 --- 266 271 296 --- 299 299 Control of school Public ................. --- 214 208 209 --- 257 255 257 --- 284 289 288 Private ................ --- 227 228 225 --- 271 270 276 --- 298 311 310 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
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/1/ All participants of this age were in school.
/2/ Test scores of Hispanics were not tabulated separately.
/3/ A quarter to a third of the 9-year-olds did not know their parents' education level.
/4/ The four items in the scale were: newspapers, magazines, more than 25 books, and an encyclopedia in the home.
NOTE: The NAEP scores range from 0 to 500, but have been evaluated at certain performance levels. A score of 300 implies an ability to find, understand, summarize, and explain relatively complicated literary and informational mate-rial. A score of 250 implies an ability to search for specific information, interrelate ideas, and make generalizations about rather lengthy literature, science, and social studies materials. A score of 200 implies an ability to understand, combine ideas, and make inferences based on short uncomplicated passages about specific or sequentially related information. A score of 150 implies an ability to follow written directions and select phrases to describe simple pictures.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Trends in Academic Progress; and NAEP 1992 Trends in Academic Progress.
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