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Students with disabilities scored higher in 2007 than in both previous assessments

 Grade 8
Grade 12

Trend in twelfth-grade NAEP writing average scores, by students with disabilities (SD) who could be assessed

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Findings

* Significantly different (p < .05) from 2007.
NOTE: The results for students with disabilities are based on students who were assessed and cannot be generalized to the total population of such students. 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), 1998, 2002, and 2007 Writing Assessments.

See a summary of the percentage of students with disabilities identified, excluded and assessed in writing.

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

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