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Geography: What Do Students Know, and What Can They Do?

NCES
Author(s):
Alan Vanneman (ESSI)
Publication date:
December 1996
Survey areas:
NAEP - National Assessment of Educational Progress
Publication number:
NCES 97579

Summary

The 1994 NAEP geography assessment reflected new ideas abou the importance and content of geography instruction. It examined 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students on their knowledge of geography and their ability to apply that knowledge to the solution of human problems. This issue of NAEPfacts discusses student performance near the 25th, 50th, and 90th percentiles for each grade, giving an overall picture of student abilities and limits.

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