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No significant changes in scores by student-reported parental education levels were noted for eighth-graders.
Grade 8

Trend in eighth-grade NAEP reading average scores, by student-reported highest level of parental education

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Findings

  • There were no significant differences in the scores for any of the student-reported parental education level categories between 2007 and 2005 or 1992.

* Significantly different (p < .05) from 2007.
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, 1992–2007 Reading Assessments.

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

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

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