The National Assessment of Educational Progress is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects. NAEP is a congressionally
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Achievement gaps in the United States are observed, persistent disparities in measures of educational performance among subgroups of U.S. students, especially groups defined by socioeconomic status, r
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…special studies that often involve special data collection processes, secondary analyses of NAEP results, and evaluations of technical procedures. Achievement gaps occur when one group of students outperforms another group with a statistically significant difference in average scores (larger than the margin of…
Achievement gaps between boys and girls in the United States are more pronounced in reading and writing than in math and science.