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Male students score higher than female students overall
  • Average Scale Score
  • Achievement Level

Average 12th-grade NAEP economics scores, by gender: 2006

Finding

  • Male students scored 4 points higher, on average, than female students in 2006.

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Race/ethnicity and gender

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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), 2006 Economics Assessments.

Twelfth-grade NAEP economics achievement-level results, by gender: 2006

Achievement level key.

Findings

  • Greater percentages of male students than female students performed at or above the Proficient level in 2006.
  • The percentages of male and female students performing at the Basic level were about the same.

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

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), 2006 Economics Assessments.

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