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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED342685 AUTHOR: Bourque, Mary Lyn; Garrison, Howard H.
TITLE: The LEVELS of Mathematics Achievement: Initial
Performance Standards for the 1990 NAEP Mathematics
Assessment. Volume I: National and State Summaries.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 368 p.; For volumes 2 and 3, see SE 052 987-988.
AVAILABILITY: National Assessment Governing Board Report,
1100 L Street, NW, Suite 7322, Washington, DC 20005-4013.
ABSTRACT: The National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP) is a congressionally mandated survey of educational
achievement of what American students know and can do, it
also includes a yardstick that can be used to evaluate that
performance. Results, presented here for the states and the
nation, indicate that just over 60 percent of the students
in grades 4, 8, and 12 are performing at or above the basic
level on the 1990 NAEP Mathematics Assessment. Less than 20
percent of the students in these three grades reach
proficient level or beyond. The percentage of students at
or above the advanced level ranges from 0.6 percent in
grade 4 to 2.6 percent in grade 12. Over one-third of the
students assessed did not reach the lowest level adopted by
the Board. The introduction describes NAEP and explains the
reasons for setting of the new achievement levels. The
document is subsequently divided into three chapters.
Chapter 1 describes the levels and provides test items and
corresponding results at different grade levels. Chapter 2
reports the overall results for the nation by grade,
gender, race or ethnicity, community type, parents
education, and school type, and semesters of high school
math for grade 12. Chapter 3 provides the same information
for grade 8 in each state. (MDH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Elementary-Secondary-Education;
Mathematics Education; Mathematics-Skills;
National-Programs; Racial Differences; Sex-Differences;
State-Programs; Student Evaluation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Achievement-Rating; *Grade-4; *Grade-8;
*Grade-12; *Mathematics-Achievement; *Mathematics-Tests
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