NAEP Reading Mathematics 2005 - Reading: State Results: Achievement Level Trends

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Between 2003 and 2005, the percentage of fourth-graders performing at or above Basic increased in 4 states and jurisdictions and decreased in 2 states. In addition, the percentage of fourth-graders performing at or above Proficient increased in 1 state and decreased in 1 state during the same period.
Between 1992 and 2005, the percentage of fourth-graders at or above Basic increased in 15 of the 42 states and jurisdictions that participated in both years, and decreased in 3 states. Between 1992 and 2005, the percentage of fourth-graders at or above Proficient increased in 21 states.
Between 2003 and 2005, the percentage of eighth-graders performing at or above Basic increased in 1 state and decreased in 6 states, and the percentage performing at or above Proficient decreased in 4 states.
Between 1998 and 2005, the percentage of eighth-graders at or above Basic increased in 4 of the 38 states and jurisdictions that participated in both years, and decreased in 11 states. Between 1998 and 2005, the percentage of students performing at or above Proficient increased in 3 states and decreased in 4 states.

GRADE 4, BASIC

GRADE 4, PROFICIENT

GRADE 8, BASIC

GRADE 8, PROFICIENT

Percentage of students at or above *Basic* in reading, grade 4 public schools: By state, various years, 1992–2005
State/jurisdiction	1992		1994		1998		1998		2002		2003		2005
	Accommodations not permitted						Accommodations permitted
Nation (public)¹	60	*	59	*	61		58	*	62		62	*	62

Alabama	51		52		56		56		52		52		53
Alaska	—		—		—		—		—		58		58
Arizona	54		52		53		51		51		54		52
Arkansas	56	*	54	*	55	*	54	*	58		60		63
California	48		44	*	48		48		50		50		50
Colorado	64	*	59	*	69		67		—		69		69
Connecticut	69		68		78	*	76	*	74	*	74		71
Delaware	57	*	52	*	57	*	53	*	71		71		73
Florida	53	*	50	*	54	*	53	*	60	*	63		65
Georgia	57		52	*	55		54		59		59		58
Hawaii	48	*	46	*	45	*	45	*	52		53		53
Idaho	67		—		—		—		67		64	*	69
Illinois	—		—		—		—		—		61		62
Indiana	68		66		—		—		68		66		64
Iowa	73	*	69		70		67		69		70		67
Kansas	—		—		71	*	70		68		66		66
Kentucky	58	*	56	*	63		62		64		64		65
Louisiana	46	*	40	*	48		44	*	50		49		53
Maine	75	*	75	*	73		72		72		70		71
Maryland	57	*	55	*	61		58	*	62		62		65
Massachusetts	74	*	69	*	73	*	70	*	80		73	*	78
Michigan	62		—		63		62		64		64		63
Minnesota	68		65	*	69		67	*	73		69		71
Mississippi	41	*	45		48		47		45		49		48
Missouri	67		62	*	63		61	*	66		68		67
Montana	—		69		73		72		71		69		71
Nebraska	68		66		—		—		68		66		68
Nevada	—		—		53		51		54		52		52
New Hampshire	76		70		75		74		—		75		74
New Jersey	69		65		—		—		—		70		68
New Mexico	55		49		52		51		52		47		51
New York	61	*	57	*	62	*	62	*	67		67		69
North Carolina	56	*	59		62		58		67	*	66	*	62
North Dakota	74		73		—		—		71		69		72
Ohio	63	*	—		—		—		68		69		69
Oklahoma	67	*	—		66	*	66	*	60		60		60
Oregon	—		—		61		58		66		63		62
Pennsylvania	68		61	*	—		—		66		65		69
Rhode Island	63		65		65		64		65		62		62
South Carolina	53		48	*	55		53		58		59		57
South Dakota	—		—		—		—		—		69		70
Tennessee	57		58		58		57		58		57		59
Texas	57	*	58	*	63		59		62		59	*	64
Utah	67		64		62	*	62	*	69		66		68
Vermont	—		—		—		—		73		73		72
Virginia	67	*	57	*	64	*	62	*	71		69		72
Washington	—		59	*	63	*	64	*	70		67		70
West Virginia	61		58		62		60		65	*	65	*	61
Wisconsin	71		71		72	*	69		—		68		67
Wyoming	71		68		65	*	64	*	68		69		71
Other jurisdictions
District of Columbia	30		24	*	28	*	27	*	31		31		33
DoDEA²	—		—		68	*	66	*	72		71	*	75
— Not available. The jurisdiction did not participate or did not meet the minimum participation guidelines for reporting.
* Significantly different from 2005.
¹ National results for assessments prior to 2002 are based on the national sample, not on aggregated state samples.
² Department of Defense Education Activity (domestic and overseas).
NOTE: State-level data were not collected in 2000. View complete data with standard errors for grade 4.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), various years, 1992–2005 Reading Assessments.

.Sample sizes and rounding can result in apparent inconsistencies. For example, in the table above for both 2003 and 2005, the percentage of fourth-grade students performing at or above Basic in public schools nationwide is 62, yet the numbers are marked as being statistically different. The actual unrounded numbers are 61.57 in 2003 and 62.47 in 2005, a 0.9 percentage point difference that is statistically significant, due in part to the large numbers of students who participated in NAEP in those two years.

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