The Nation's Report Card: 2008 Arts: Music and Visual Arts at Grade 8 (NCES 2009-488)

This report presents the results of the 2008 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) arts assessment. It was administered to a nationally representative sample of 7,900 eighth-grade public and private school students. Approximately one-half of these students were assessed in music, and the other half were assessed in visual arts.