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 *Proficient* 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	27	*	28		29		28	*	30		30		30

Alabama	20		23		24		24		22		22		22
Alaska	—		—		—		—		—		28		27
Arizona	21		24		22		22		22		23		24
Arkansas	23	*	24	*	23	*	23	*	26	*	28		30
California	19		18	*	20		20		21		21		21
Colorado	25	*	28	*	34		33		—		37		37
Connecticut	34	*	38		46	*	43		43	*	43	*	38
Delaware	24	*	23	*	25	*	22	*	35		33		34
Florida	21	*	23	*	23	*	22	*	27		32		30
Georgia	25		26		24		24		28		27		26
Hawaii	17	*	19	*	17	*	17	*	21		21		23
Idaho	28	*	—		—		—		32		30		33
Illinois	—		—		—		—		—		31		29
Indiana	30		33		—		—		33		33		30
Iowa	36		35		35		33		35		35		33
Kansas	—		—		34		34		34		33		32
Kentucky	23	*	26	*	29		29		30		31		31
Louisiana	15	*	15	*	19		17		20		20		20
Maine	36		41	*	36		35		35		36		35
Maryland	24	*	26	*	29		27	*	30		32		32
Massachusetts	36	*	36	*	37	*	35	*	47		40		44
Michigan	26	*	—		28		28		30		32		32
Minnesota	31	*	33	*	36		35		37		37		38
Mississippi	14	*	18		18		17		16		18		18
Missouri	30		31		29		28	*	32		34		33
Montana	—		35		37		37		36		35		36
Nebraska	31		34		—		—		34		32		34
Nevada	—		—		21		20		21		20		21
New Hampshire	38		36		38		37		—		40		39
New Jersey	35		33		—		—		—		39		37
New Mexico	23		21		22		21		21		19		20
New York	27	*	27	*	29	*	29	*	35		34		33
North Carolina	25	*	30		28		27		32		33		29
North Dakota	35		38		—		—		34		32	*	35
Ohio	27	*	—		—		—		34		34		34
Oklahoma	29		—		30	*	30	*	26		26		25
Oregon	—		—		28		26		31		31		29
Pennsylvania	32		30	*	—		—	`	34		33		36
Rhode Island	28		32		32		31		32		29		30
South Carolina	22	*	20	*	22		22		26		26		26
South Dakota	—		—		—		—		—		33		33
Tennessee	23		27		25		25		25		26		27
Texas	24	*	26		29		28		28		27		29
Utah	30	*	30		28	*	28	*	33		32		34
Vermont	—		—		—		—		39		37		39
Virginia	31	*	26	*	30	*	30	*	37		35		37
Washington	—		27	*	29	*	30	*	35		33		36
West Virginia	25		26		29		28		28		29		26
Wisconsin	33		35		34		34		—		33		33
Wyoming	33		32		30		29	*	31		34		34
Other jurisdictions
District of Columbia	10		8	*	10		10		10		10		11
DoDEA ²	—		—		33		32	*	34		35		36
— 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.

.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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