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Table 104.	Among public secondary school visual arts specialists who participated in various professional development activities, percent and standard error reporting that participation in the activity improved their teaching to a moderate or great extent, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (Return to Table 104)

School characteristic	Activities designed for all teachers
	Incorporating state or district standards into instruction		Student assessment		A subject area that is unrelated to visual arts
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

All public secondary school visual arts specialists	43	(2.2)	26	(2.2)	36	(2.0)

Enrollment size
Less than 500	45	(4.2)	23	(4.2)	40	(3.6)
500 to 999	41	(4.0)	28	(3.5)	34	(3.1)
1,000 or more	43	(3.7)	26	(3.7)	34	(2.5)
Community type
City	40	(4.7)	30	(5.0)	38	(3.8)
Suburban	43	(4.5)	28	(3.5)	36	(3.3)
Town	46	(4.8)	20	(4.2)	30	(4.3)
Rural	44	(4.2)	23	(3.8)	36	(4.0)
Region
Northeast	42	(4.8)	24	(4.0)	29	(3.5)
Southeast	44	(4.2)	28	(4.0)	36	(3.0)
Central	48	(4.1)	20	(4.0)	35	(3.2)
West	38	(4.2)	32	(4.8)	42	(4.1)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities¹
Less than 6 percent	45	(4.9)	23	(4.9)	35	(3.7)
6 to 20 percent	42	(4.4)	22	(3.4)	42	(4.4)
21 to 49 percent	39	(4.8)	35	(4.3)	30	(3.2)
50 percent or more	47	(4.3)	25	(4.1)	34	(3.0)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	39	(2.9)	29	(3.5)	34	(3.2)
26 to 50 percent	42	(4.1)	23	(3.1)	36	(3.1)
51 to 75 percent	55	(4.9)	23	(4.6)	38	(4.0)
76 percent or more	41	(7.1)	31	(7.2)	37	(5.2)

¹Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students.
NOTE: Percents are based on the percentage of teachers who participated in each professional development activity (50 percent for applied study in art studio, 51 percent for developing knowledge about visual arts, 57 percent for connecting visual arts learning with other subject areas, 43 percent for research on arts and student learning, 60 percent for integrating educational technologies into visual arts instruction, 78 percent for incorporating state or district standards into instruction, 77 percent for student assessment, and 36 percent for a subject area that is unrelated to visual arts). Arts specialists are education professionals with a teaching certificate in an arts discipline—such as music, visual arts, dance, or drama/theatre—who provide separate instruction in that discipline.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Survey of Secondary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 103VA, 2009–10.