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(35KB)| Table 127. | Average U.S. history scale score, by grade level and selected student characteristics, and percentage distribution of 12th-graders, by selected student characteristics: 1994, 2001, and 2006 |
| 4th-graders | 8th-graders | 12th-graders | Percentage distribution of 12th-graders | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 19941 | 2001 | 2006 | 19941 | 2001 | 2006 | 19941 | 2001 | 2006 | 19941 | 2001 | 2006 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| All students | 205 | (1.0) | 208 | (0.9) | 211 | (1.1) | 259 | (0.6) | 260 | (0.8) | 263 | (0.8) | 286 | (0.8) | 287 | (0.9) | 290 | (0.7) | 100 | (†) | 100 | (†) | 100 | (†) |
| Sex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Male | 203 | (1.5) | 207 | (1.1) | 211 | (1.2) | 259 | (0.8) | 261 | (0.9) | 264 | (0.9) | 288 | (0.8) | 288 | (1.1) | 292 | (0.9) | 50 | (0.8) | 50 | (0.7) | 50 | (0.4) |
| Female | 206 | (1.1) | 209 | (1.2) | 211 | (1.1) | 259 | (0.7) | 260 | (0.9) | 261 | (0.8) | 285 | (0.9) | 286 | (0.9) | 288 | (0.8) | 50 | (0.8) | 50 | (0.7) | 50 | (0.4) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| White | 214 | (1.3) | 217 | (1.3) | 223 | (1.1) | 266 | (0.8) | 268 | (0.9) | 273 | (0.6) | 292 | (0.8) | 292 | (1.0) | 297 | (0.8) | 75 | (0.5) | 72 | (0.5) | 66 | (1.3) |
| Black | 176 | (1.6) | 186 | (2.0) | 191 | (1.9) | 238 | (1.6) | 240 | (1.9) | 244 | (1.2) | 265 | (1.5) | 267 | (1.4) | 270 | (1.3) | 13 | (0.3) | 13 | (0.2) | 13 | (0.9) |
| Hispanic | 175 | (2.6) | 184 | (2.6) | 194 | (1.9) | 243 | (1.4) | 240 | (2.0) | 248 | (1.2) | 267 | (1.7) | 271 | (1.9) | 275 | (1.0) | 7 | (0.5) | 9 | (0.4) | 13 | (1.2) |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 204 | (3.6) | 216 | (3.7) | 214 | (5.1) | 261 | (5.0) | 264 | (2.8) | 270 | (3.0) | 283 | (3.5) | 294 | (6.0) | 296 | (2.6) | 4 | (0.3) | 4 | (0.3) | 6 | (0.6) |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | 190 | (5.9) | 245 | (3.4) | 255 | (4.4) | 244 | (6.3) | 272 | (3.0) | 283 | (4.2) | 278 | (4.1) | 1 | (0.3) | 1 | (0.2) | 2 | (0.7) |
| Parents' highest level of education | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Not high school graduate | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 241 | (1.3) | 241 | (2.8) | 244 | (1.2) | 263 | (1.4) | 266 | (1.6) | 268 | (1.3) | 7 | (0.4) | 7 | (0.4) | 8 | (0.4) |
| Graduated high school | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 251 | (0.8) | 251 | (1.0) | 252 | (1.3) | 276 | (1.1) | 274 | (1.1) | 278 | (1.0) | 20 | (0.7) | 19 | (0.6) | 18 | (0.6) |
| Some college | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 264 | (0.8) | 264 | (1.0) | 265 | (0.9) | 287 | (1.2) | 286 | (0.8) | 290 | (0.8) | 25 | (0.7) | 24 | (0.7) | 23 | (0.6) |
| Graduated college | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 270 | (0.8) | 273 | (0.9) | 274 | (0.8) | 296 | (0.9) | 298 | (1.2) | 300 | (0.8) | 45 | (1.0) | 46 | (1.1) | 49 | (1.0) |
| Free/reduced-price lunch eligibility | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eligible | — | (†) | 188 | (1.4) | 195 | (1.1) | — | (†) | 242 | (1.3) | 247 | (1.1) | — | (†) | 269 | (1.4) | 273 | (1.0) | — | (†) | 15 | (0.9) | 22 | (1.0) |
| Not eligible | — | (†) | 219 | (1.4) | 224 | (1.0) | — | (†) | 267 | (1.1) | 273 | (0.7) | — | (†) | 289 | (1.2) | 295 | (0.8) | — | (†) | 64 | (2.2) | 67 | (1.4) |
| Not available | — | (†) | 217 | (2.8) | 227 | (3.9) | — | (†) | 266 | (2.0) | 281 | (2.7) | — | (†) | 294 | (2.1) | 300 | (2.4) | — | (†) | 21 | (2.5) | 11 | (1.3) |
| Region | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northeast | — | (†) | — | (†) | 215 | (1.7) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 267 | (1.8) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 297 | (2.2) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 20 | (0.8) |
| Midwest | — | (†) | — | (†) | 220 | (2.2) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 269 | (1.4) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 292 | (1.1) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 23 | (0.7) |
| South | — | (†) | — | (†) | 213 | (2.0) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 262 | (1.2) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 286 | (1.4) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 33 | (0.8) |
| West | — | (†) | — | (†) | 199 | (2.9) | — | (†) | — | (†) | 255 | (1.9) | — | (†) | — | (†) | ‡ | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
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— Not available. † Not applicable. ‡ Reporting standards not met. 1 Accommodations were not permitted for this assessment. NOTE: Scale ranges from 0 to 500. Includes public and private schools. Excludes students unable to be tested due to limited proficiency in English or due to a disability (if the accommodations provided were not sufficient to enable the test to properly reflect the students' proficiency in U.S. history). Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Totals include other racial/ethnic groups not shown separately. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses. Some data have been modified from previously published figures. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1994, 2001, and 2006 U.S. History Assessments, retrieved June 6, 2007, from the NAEP Data Explorer (http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nde/). (This table was prepared June 2007.) |
