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No significant change in reading scores for 17-year-olds at any performance level
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Trend in NAEP reading average scores for 9-year-old students

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Finding

  • At age 9, the average reading score in 2008 was 4 points higher than in 2004 and 12 points higher than in 1971.

* Significantly different (p < .05) from 2008.
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, 1971–2008 Long-Term Trend Reading Assessments.

To read more details on comparisons across years, see About the Long-Term Trend Assessment.

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National Assessment of Educational Progress, National Center for Education Statistics
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