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No significant changes in scores by student-reported parental education levels were noted for eighth-graders.
Grade 8

Trend in eighth-grade NAEP reading achievement-level performance, by student-reported highest level of parental education

  Key. Accommodations not permitted. Top bar percent at Advanced. Middle bar percent at or above Proficient. Bottom bar percent at or above Basic. Accommodations permitted. Top bar percent at Advanced. Middle bar percent at or above Proficient. Bottom bar percent at or above Basic.

 

Findings

  • The percentage of students at all levels of student-reported parental education performing at or above Basic was higher in 2007 than in 1992.

# Rounds to zero.
* Significantly different (p < .05) from 2007.
NOTE: View complete data with standard errors.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), various years, 1992–2007 Reading Assessments.

To read more details related to students' responses to background questions about parental education levels, see NAEP Reporting Groups.

To read more about achievement levels and how they are set, see Reporting the Assessment—Scale Scores and Achievement Levels.

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National Assessment of Educational Progress, National Center for Education Statistics
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Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education