Table 138. | American College Testing (ACT) score averages, by sex: 1970 to 2001 |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Type of test |1970 |1975 |1980 |1985 ||1990\1\| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 _____________________________|_____|_____|_____|_____||_______|_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 || 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 _____________________________|_____|_____|_____|_____||_______|_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________ Participants:\2\ | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | Total (in thousands) ......| 714 | 822 | 836 | 739 || 817 | 796 | 832 | 876 | 892 | 945 | 924 | 959 | 995 |1,019 |1,065 |1,070 |_____|_____|_____|_____||_______|_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________ | Test scores\3\ |____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Composite, total ..........|18.6 |18.5 |18.5 |18.6 || 20.6 | 20.6 | 20.6 | 20.7 | 20.8 | 20.8 | 20.9 |21.0 (4.7)|21.0 (4.7)| 21.0 (4.7)| 21.0 (4.7)| 21.0 (4.7) Male ....................|19.5 |19.3 |19.3 |19.4 || 21.0 | 20.9 | 20.9 | 21.0 | 20.9 | 21.0 | 21.0 |21.1 (4.9)|21.2 (4.9)| 21.1 (4.9)| 21.2 (4.9)| 21.1 (4.9) Female ..................|17.8 |17.9 |17.8 |17.9 || 20.3 | 20.4 | 20.5 | 20.5 | 20.7 | 20.7 | 20.8 |20.8 (4.6)|20.9 (4.6)| 20.9 (4.6)| 20.9 (4.6)| 20.9 (4.6) | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | English, total ..............|17.7 |17.9 |17.8 |18.1 || 20.5 | 20.3 | 20.2 | 20.3 | 20.3 | 20.2 | 20.3 |20.3 (5.4)|20.4 (5.4)| 20.5 (5.5)| 20.5 (5.5)| 20.5 (5.6) Male ......................|17.1 |17.3 |17.3 |17.6 || 20.1 | 19.8 | 19.8 | 19.8 | 19.8 | 19.8 | 19.8 |19.9 (5.4)|19.9 (5.4)| 20.0 (5.5)| 20.0 (5.6)| 20.0 (5.6) Female ....................|18.3 |18.3 |18.2 |18.6 || 20.9 | 20.7 | 20.6 | 20.6 | 20.7 | 20.6 | 20.7 |20.7 (5.4)|20.8 (5.4)| 20.9 (5.5)| 20.9 (5.5)| 20.8 (5.6) | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | Math, total .................|17.6 |17.4 |17.3 |17.2 || 19.9 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 20.1 | 20.2 | 20.2 | 20.2 |20.6 (5.0)|20.8 (5.1)| 20.7 (5.0)| 20.7 (5.0)| 20.7 (5.0) Male ......................|19.3 |18.9 |18.9 |18.6 || 20.7 | 20.6 | 20.7 | 20.8 | 20.8 | 20.9 | 20.9 |21.3 (5.2)|21.5 (5.3)| 21.4 (5.2)| 21.4 (5.2)| 21.4 (5.2) Female ....................|16.2 |16.2 |16.0 |16.0 || 19.3 | 19.4 | 19.5 | 19.6 | 19.6 | 19.7 | 19.7 |20.1 (4.7)|20.2 (4.8)| 20.2 (4.7)| 20.2 (4.8)| 20.2 (4.7) | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | Reading, total\4\ .......? |17.4 |17.2 |17.2 |17.4 || --- | 21.2 | 21.1 | 21.2 | 21.2 | 21.3 | 21.3 |21.3 (6.1)|21.4 (6.0)| 21.4 (6.0)| 21.4 (6.1)| 21.3 (6.0) Male ......................|18.7 |18.2 |18.3 |18.3 || --- | 21.3 | 21.1 | 21.2 | 21.1 | 21.1 | 21.0 |21.2 (6.1)|21.1 (6.2)| 21.1 (6.1)| 21.2 (6.1)| 21.1 (6.1) Female ....................|16.4 |16.4 |16.4 |16.6 || --- | 21.1 | 21.1 | 21.2 | 21.4 | 21.4 | 21.6 |21.5 (6.0)|21.6 (5.9)| 21.6 (5.9)| 21.5 (6.0)| 21.5 (6.0) | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | Science reasoning, total\5\ .|21.1 |21.1 |21.0 |21.2 || --- | 20.7 | 20.7 | 20.8 | 20.9 | 21.0 | 21.1 |21.1 (4.7)|21.1 (4.6)| 21.0 (4.5)| 21.0 (4.5)| 21.0 (4.6) Male ......................|22.4 |22.4 |22.3 |22.6 || --- | 21.3 | 21.4 | 21.5 | 21.6 | 21.6 | 21.7 |21.7 (4.9)|21.8 (4.9)| 21.5 (4.8)| 21.6 (4.8)| 21.6 (4.9) Female ....................|20.0 |20.0 |20.0 |20.0 || --- | 20.1 | 20.1 | 20.3 | 20.4 | 20.5 | 20.5 |20.6 (4.4)|20.6 (4.3)| 20.6 (4.2)| 20.6 (4.3)| 20.6 (4.3) |_____|_____|_____|_____||_______|_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________ | Percent |________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________ Obtaining composite | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | scores of-- | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | 27 or above \6\..............| --- | --- | --- | --- || 12 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 10 --- | 10 --- | 10 --- | 10 --- | 10 --- 18 or below \7\..............| --- | --- | --- | --- || 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 26 --- | 25 --- | 25 --- | 25 --- | 25 --- | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | Planned major field of study | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | Business\8\ ...............| 18 | 14 | 20 | 21 || 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 --- | 12 --- | 12 --- | 11 --- | 11 --- Engineering\9\ ............| 8 | 6 | 8 | 9 || 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 --- | 8 --- | 8 --- | 8 --- | 7 --- Social science\10\ ........| 10 | 7 | 6 | 7 || 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 --- | 9 --- | 9 --- | 9 --- | 9 --- Education\11\ .............| 16 | 11 | 9 | 6 || 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 --- | 9 --- | 9 --- | 9 --- | 8 --- _____________________________|_____|_____|_____|_____||_______|_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________ |
---Not available. NOTE: Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: The American College Testing program, High School Profile Report, annual. (This table was prepared August 2001.)
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