January 2010, Vol. 41, Issue 1
Mathematics Skills of 17-Year-Olds in the United States: 1978 to 2004
Peter Kloosterman
Overall scale scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate that there was only minimal improvement in the mathematics performance of high school students between 1978 and 2004. Using recently released data from the Long-Term Trend (LTT) NAEP, this study describes the content covered on the LTT NAEP and the performance of 17-year-old students on that content.
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