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