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Table 389.Geography proficiency of 13-year-olds in educational systems participating in the International Assessment of Educational Progress: 1991

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              |                              Average percent correct
              |__________________________________________________________________________
   Country    | All geography  |Geographic skills | Physical geography|Cultural geography
              | items\1\ (s.e.)|and tools\2\(s.e.)| items\3\ (s.e.)   |items\4\ (s.e.)
______________|________________|__________________|___________________|__________________
      1       |        2       |        3         |         4         |        5
______________|________________|__________________|___________________|__________________
Hungary.......|   69.8   (0.6) |   76.3     (0.5) |    67.8     (0.7) |   65.0     (0.7)
Slovenia......|   65.3   (0.6) |   67.9     (0.5) |    63.6     (0.7) |   64.3     (0.9)
Canada\5\.....|   63.0   (0.5) |   69.5     (0.4) |    61.0     (0.6) |   58.2     (0.6)
Soviet Union  |                |                  |                   |
  (former)\6\.|   62.6   (1.1) |   72.2     (0.9) |    61.2     (1.0) |   53.4     (1.8)
United States.|   61.9   (0.8) |   69.4     (0.6) |    58.3     (1.0) |   58.1     (1.0)
Spain\7\......|   60.1   (0.7) |   62.4     (0.9) |    58.9     (0.7) |   58.9     (1.1)
Korea.........|   59.7   (0.5) |   67.8     (0.5) |    52.1     (0.7) |   60.3     (0.6)
Ireland.......|   58.5   (0.6) |   62.7     (0.6) |    59.5     (0.8) |   52.3     (0.8)
Scotland......|   58.3   (0.6) |   66.2     (0.5) |    57.1     (0.8) |   50.6     (0.8)
______________|________________|__________________|___________________|__________________

\1\All 24 geographic items.
\2\Eight items testing ability to use maps, charts, and globes.
\3\Nine items testing knowledge of location of physical features and concepts of climate.
\4\Seven items testing knowledge of cultural entities and interactions between people and their environment.
\5\Eight provinces.
\6\Schools in 14 republics where instruction is in Russian.
\7\Schools where instruction is in Spanish, in all regions except Cataluna.

NOTE.--s.e.=standard error.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The International Assessment of Educational Progress, Learning About The World, 1992. (This table was prepared May 1993.)


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