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Table 2
SAT Scores in Collective Bargaining States |
| |
Adjusted for Percentage of Students
Taking Test |
| |
|
|
Percent of Teachers |
|
| |
|
|
Collectively |
Meet |
Adjusted* for |
| |
|
Bargaining |
Bargained |
and |
Test-taking Rate |
| |
State |
Law |
Contract |
Confer |
SAT |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Wisconsin |
x |
100.0 |
0.0 |
996.1 |
| |
Maryland |
x |
100.0 |
0.0 |
988.5 |
| |
New Jersey |
x |
100.0 |
0.0 |
979.1 |
| |
Hawaii |
x |
100.0 |
0.0 |
962.9 |
| |
Florida |
x |
100.0 |
0.0 |
949.5 |
| |
Rhode Island |
x |
100.0 |
0.0 |
969.1 |
| |
Pennsylvania |
x |
100.0 |
0.0 |
961.1 |
| |
New York |
x |
99.7 |
0.0 |
972.4 |
| |
Massachusetts |
x |
99.6 |
0.0 |
983.8 |
| |
Maine |
x |
99.4 |
0.0 |
976.9 |
| |
New Hampshire |
x |
99.3 |
0.0 |
1016.1 |
| |
Connecticut |
x |
99.0 |
1.0 |
983.9 |
| |
Indiana |
x |
99.0 |
1.0 |
956.9 |
| |
Oregon |
x |
98.7 |
6.9 |
1012.7 |
| |
California |
x |
98.5 |
1.4 |
956.5 |
| |
Alaska |
x |
98.3 |
1.3 |
992.6 |
| |
Washington |
x |
98.2 |
1.4 |
997.5 |
| |
Ohio |
x |
98.1 |
1.5 |
962.3 |
| |
Iowa |
x |
97.3 |
1.4 |
1000.7 |
| |
Michigan |
x |
96.7 |
2.6 |
966.3 |
| |
Illinois |
x |
96.4 |
2.3 |
991.1 |
| |
Vermont |
x |
95.7 |
0.0 |
981.9 |
| |
Delaware |
x |
95.0 |
5.0 |
977.9 |
| |
Nevada |
x |
94.4 |
5.4 |
930.1 |
| |
Montana |
x |
93.0 |
3.8 |
988.1 |
| |
Minnesota |
x |
92.6 |
7.4 |
1008.1 |
| |
Average |
|
98.0 |
1.6 |
979.3 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Idaho |
x |
83.0 |
13.0 |
931.6 |
| |
Nebraska |
x |
82.3 |
15.3 |
973.1 |
| |
South Dakota |
x |
78.9 |
25.5 |
969.7 |
| |
Utah |
|
76.4 |
21.4 |
972.1 |
| |
Kansas |
x |
76.4 |
21.1 |
983.1 |
| |
Tennessee |
x |
74.7 |
3.5 |
978.2 |
| |
Colorado |
|
69.3 |
20.3 |
989.7 |
| |
North Dakota |
x |
66.3 |
28.1 |
1008.7 |
| |
Oklahoma |
x |
58.4 |
13.4 |
950.1 |
| |
New Mexico |
x |
54.5 |
11.0 |
948.3 |
| |
Wyoming |
|
34.0 |
35.0 |
929.2 |
| |
Missouri |
x |
7.7 |
51.6 |
968.1 |
| |
Average |
|
63.5 |
21.6 |
966.8 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Kentucky |
|
20.9 |
13.9 |
932.3 |
| |
Arkansas |
|
17.3 |
11.7 |
912.2 |
| |
Louisiana |
|
16.0 |
3.1 |
944.1 |
| |
Arizona |
|
15.1 |
17.2 |
946.6 |
| |
Alabama |
|
1.8 |
15.3 |
946.9 |
| |
Georgia |
|
1.7 |
0.2 |
934.0 |
| |
Mississippi |
|
0.0 |
8.4 |
934.1 |
| |
West Virginia |
|
0.0 |
12.6 |
893.8 |
| |
Virginia |
|
0.0 |
32.0 |
976.0 |
| |
Texas |
|
0.0 |
16.0 |
951.6 |
| |
North Carolina |
|
0.0 |
7.8 |
941.8 |
| |
South Carolina |
|
0.0 |
1.5 |
918.9 |
| |
Average |
|
6.1 |
11.6 |
936.0 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
National Average |
|
68.1 |
8.8 |
966.1 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
*Estimated SAT score if 35.4 percent of
graduating seniors took the SAT (the national average) using
regression coefficients from euation 3, Table A1. |
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Posted December 1, 1997
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