The 1998 ACT High School Profile Report — National Data

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Table 10: Average ACT Composite Scores by Career Cluster

Plan on 2 years or less of College
Reference Group		Total		Core or More		Less Than Core		Males		Females
		No.	Avg.	No.	Avg.	No.	Avg.	No.	Avg.	No.	Avg.
Business Cont	(02-03)	5483	16.9	1809	17.8	3622	16.5	920	17.0	4563	16.9
Business Oper	(04-05)	8834	17.3	2777	18.5	5965	16.8	3480	17.1	5354	17.4
Technical	(06-07)	13713	17.2	4315	18.5	9233	16.7	9199	17.3	4514	17.2
Science	(08-09)	7411	18.1	2540	19.2	4775	17.5	3758	18.2	3653	17.9
Arts	(10-11)	3512	18.0	1183	19.0	2287	17.5	1017	18.1	2495	18.0
Social Service	(12-01)	4158	17.2	1388	18.3	2732	16.6	921	17.2	3237	17.2
Other *		17616	17.1	5805	18.2	11535	16.5	7193	17.1	10423	17.1
Total		60727	17.3	19817	18.5	40149	16.8	26488	17.3	34239	17.3
Plan on 4 years or more of College
Reference Group		Total		Core or More		Less Than Core		Males		Females
		No.	Avg.	No.	Avg.	No.	Avg.	No.	Avg.	No.	Avg.
Business Cont	(02-03)	98913	20.7	64519	21.5	33669	19.1	31161	21.4	67752	20.3
Business Oper	(04-05)	67429	20.7	41928	21.6	25002	19.2	31315	20.7	36114	20.7
Technical	(06-07)	92380	21.0	59056	22.0	32566	19.3	58700	21.0	33680	21.0
Science	(08-09)	126756	22.6	86700	23.4	38908	20.9	62180	22.9	64576	22.4
Arts	(10-11)	90127	22.5	60074	23.3	29264	21.0	28589	22.9	61538	22.3
Social Service	(12-01)	91938	21.2	59031	22.0	32186	19.7	25314	21.4	66624	21.1
Other *		261391	21.3	172152	22.2	86226	19.6	116192	21.5	145199	21.2
Total		828934	21.5	543460	22.3	277821	19.8	353451	21.7	475483	21.3

* Other = Students who had World-of-Work regions that differed from those listed.

Table 11: Percentage Distribution of Planned Educational Majors and Vocational Choices

	Planned Education Major				Male		Female		Total
	Number of Students	Average ACT Composite Score	Certainty (Percent)		(Percent)		(Percent)		(Percent)
			Very	Fairly	Educ Major	1st Voc	Educ Major	1st Voc	Educ Major	1st Voc
Agriculture & Ag Technology	20691	19.4	34	49	4	4	1	1	2	2
Architectural & Env Design	21200	20.9	37	49	3	3	2	2	2	2
Business & Management	103694	20.6	33	52	13	13	10	9	11	11
Business & Office	8643	18.2	30	52	0	0	1	2	1	1
Marketing & Distribution	5919	19.4	28	51	0	0	1	1	1	1
Comm & Comm Technology	37457	21.4	33	50	3	4	5	5	4	4
Community & Personal Services	30317	18.9	44	44	3	4	3	4	3	4
Computer & Info Science	31973	21.4	40	49	6	6	2	2	3	3
Cross-Disciplinary Studies	812	23.0	18	46	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	52593	20.3	46	43	2	2	8	9	6	6
Teacher Education	36037	20.4	43	45	3	4	4	5	4	5
	Planned Education Major				Male		Female		Total
	Number of Students	Average ACT Composite Score	Certainty (Percent)		(Percent)		(Percent)		(Percent)
			Very	Fairly	Educ Major	1st Voc	Educ Major	1st Voc	Educ Major	1st Voc
Engineering (Pre)	65242	22.8	34	52	13	12	2	2	7	6
Engineer-Related Technology	15880	21.1	31	52	4	4	0	1	2	2
Foreign Languages	3503	23.4	34	48	0	0	1	0	0	0
Health Science & Allied	183804	21.0	49	42	11	12	26	28	20	21
Home Economics	7151	18.8	40	46	0	0	1	1	1	1
Letters	7093	24.7	30	52	1	0	1	1	1	1
Mathematics	3672	24.4	25	52	0	0	0	0	0	0
Philosophy, Religion, Theology	6046	22.4	47	39	1	1	0	0	1	1
Sciences (Bio and Phy)	46385	23.5	33	51	5	4	5	4	5	4
Social Sciences	79170	22.0	38	48	6	5	11	10	9	8
Trade & Industrial	10969	18.8	42	43	3	4	0	0	1	2
Visual/Performing Arts	50203	21.3	44	43	5	6	6	6	5	6
Undecided	91109	20.8	7	12	11	11	9	8	10	9
No Response to Ed Major	75476
Total Students in Report	995039

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