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Female students score higher in visual arts than male counterparts
Responding Scale Score
Creating Task Score

Average creating task score in NAEP visual arts at grade 8, by gender: 2008

Findings

  • Female eighth-graders had a higher average creating task score than male students. The score gap between the two groups was 5 points.

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2008 Arts Assessment.

 

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