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Percentage at or above Basic and Proficient Decreased

  • The percentage of students performing at or above Basic decreased from 80 percent in 1992 to
    73 percent in 2005, and the percentage of students performing at or above the Proficient level decreased from 40 to 35 percent over the same period of time.
GRADE 12

Trend in twelfth-grade NAEP reading achievement-level results 

Trend in twelfth-grade NAEP reading achievement-level results

* Significantly different from 2005.
NOTE: View complete data with standard errors for grade 12.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), various years, 1992–2005 Reading Assessments.

View more information about reading achievement levels on the NAEP website. Read the specific definitions of the Basic, Proficient, and Advanced achievement levels for grade 12.

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