(For NAEP, it's really just fourth and eighth, as
twelfth grade NAEP results are reported just for the country as a whole.
Yet
twelfth grade NAEP remained almost entirely confined to the national level, although NAGB and NCES piloted some state participation in 2009 and 2013, with thirteen states volunteering in the latter year.
On the 2015
twelfth grade NAEP, 19 % of students said they either were taking or had taken calculus.
Not exact matches
(The
twelfth -
grade math framework was changed in 2005 — which, to use
NAEP jargon, «broke the trend line» and started a new one, although some special analyses make it possible to connect the two.)
The Main
NAEP assesses students by
grade level (fourth, eighth, and
twelfth) and, unlike the LTT, produces not only national but also state scores.
After much analysis and deliberation, the board settled on cut scores on
NAEP's
twelfth -
grade assessments that indicated that students were truly prepared — 163 for math (on a three - hundred - point scale) and 302 for reading (on a five - hundred - point point scale).
The single best thing that could happen to American education in the next few years would be for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP) to begin regularly reporting state - by - state results at the
twelfth grade level.
According to data from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP), only 28 % of fourth graders, 31 % of eighth graders, and 24 % of
twelfth graders performed at or above a proficient (i.e., competent) level of writing achievement for their respective
grade level (Persky, Daane, & Jin, 2003).
African American and Asian American students are doing better in terms of college completion than their
twelfth -
grade NAEP scores would predict.
Specifically, why might African American and Asian American students be doing better in terms of college completion than their
twelfth -
grade NAEP scores would predict?
Chart 1 displays the percentage of
twelfth -
grade students nationally who have reached
NAEP's «college - prepared» level in reading and math over the past twenty - five years.
Considering that only 40 % of fourth -
grade students, 33 % of eighth -
grade students, and 25 % of
twelfth -
grade students scored proficient or above on the 2015
NAEP math assessment, 6 this may seem like a high bar to reach — but it's not impossible.
For this reason and others, the U.S. Department of Education has yet to conduct a
twelfth grade state - by - state
NAEP assessment.