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Useful Stats: 8th Grade Science Assessment Scores by State
Using the statistics provided in the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress science assessment, SSTI has prepared a table ranking states based on the percent of 8th grade students scoring at or above proficiency in 2000. Ties were broken by the states' average scores for the year.
Montana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio and North Dakota were the top five states in the ranking — all with at least 40 percent of their 8th grade students scoring at or above proficiency in 2000. Thirteen other states were at or above the national average of 30 percent.
The SSTI table also presents each state's 1996 assessment score for 8th grade students, the change between 2000 and 1996, and the percentage of fourth-graders scoring at or above proficiency in 2000.
The table can be found on the following webpage: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/113001t.htm