| Grade 4 | Grade 8 | Grade 12 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content Area | Target | Actual | Target | Actual | Target | Actual |
| Space and Place | 40 | 42 | 40 | 38 | 40 | 41 |
| Environment and Society | 30 | 27 | 30 | 35 | 30 | 32 |
| Spatial Dynamics | 30 | 31 | 30 | 26 | 30 | 27 |
| SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 Geography Assessment. | ||||||
| Grade 4 | Grade 8 | Grade 12 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Area | Target | Actual | Target | Actual | Target | Actual |
| Knowing | 45 | 34 | 40 | 33 | 30 | 27 |
| Understanding | 30 | 37 | 30 | 45 | 30 | 35 |
| Applying | 25 | 29 | 30 | 22 | 40 | 38 |
| SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010 Geography Assessment. | ||||||
The distribution of items among the various geography content areas is a critical feature of the assessment design, as it reflects the relative importance given to each of the curricular content areas within geography. As has been the case with past NAEP assessments in geography, the categories receive different emphasis at each grade level.
View additional information about the assessment in the Geography Framework (587K PDF).
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