Proficiency Levels
Proficiency Levels
Males at age 17 have experienced no shifts from lower to higher levels of achievement in mathematics, but at age 13, they show a pronounced increase (approximately 10
percentage points) in the percentage that can use multiplication and division to solve problems (level 250). (See appendix tables 1-10 and 1-11.) A
larger percentage of females at age 17 can use fractions and decimals (level 300) than could in 1978, but the proportion that could solve algebra and geometry problems (level 350) did not change. As with the males, the percentage of 13-year-old
females who can use multiplication and division to solve problems (level 250) increased by nearly 10 percent.
In science, neither male nor female 17-year-olds experienced shifts from lower to higher levels of achievement. (See appendix tables 1-12 and 1-13.)
However, a greater percentage of 13-year-olds of both sexes were able to apply and interpret general scientific information (level 250).
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