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Scores higher for twelfth-graders with parents at lowest and highest education levels
GRADE 8
GRADE 12

Twelfth-grade NAEP U.S. history achievement-level results, by parental education level

  Key for the graphic above. The first bar represents percent at or above Proficient, and percent at or above Basic for Accommodations not permitted. The second bar represents percent at or above Proficient, and percent at or above Basic for Accommodations permitted.

Findings

  • Students who reported having a parent who graduated from high school had a higher percentage at or above Basic in 2006 than in 2001.
  • Students who reported having a parent with additional education after high school had a higher percentage at or above Basic in 2006 than in 2001.

* Significantly different from 2006.
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), 1994, 2001, and 2006 U.S. History Assessments.

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

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

 

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