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Science scores on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress were released today, and show Oklahoma is making some of the largest gains in the nation in narrowing performance gaps.
 In fourth-grade science, the white-black performance gap decreased nine points, from 32 in 2009 to 23 in 2015. Oklahoma’s fourth-grade black students had the second-largest gain in science scores, behind only Tennessee.
In eighth-grade science, the white-Hispanic performance gap decreased eight points, from 28 in 2009 to 20 in 2015. Oklahoma’s eighth-grade Hispanic students had the third-largest gain in science scores, behind Utah and South Carolina.
Oklahoma is one of only three states, including Hawaii and Mississippi, to show gains in five of the six areas NAEP assessed in 2015.
NAEP is the largest national representative and continuing assessment of what students in the United States know and can do in various subject areas. The science assessment is comprised of three content areas: physical science, Earth and space sciences, and life science.