NAEP Geography -- National Geography Achievement-Level Results, Grade 8: 1994 and 2001

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

National geography achievement-level results, grade 8 (public and nonpublic schools combined): 1994 and 2001

How to Read This Figure
	The percentages shown to the right of the shaded bars represent the percentages of students at or above Basic and Proficient.
	The percentages shown within the shaded bars represent the percentages of students within each achievement level.

View complete data with standard errors.

Significantly different from 1994.
NOTE: NAEP reports assessment results in terms of student performance standards called "achievement levels," which are set by the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB). The three levels for each grade are Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. See more information about the geography achievement levels.
Percentages within each geography achievement level may not add to 100, or to the exact percentages at or above achievement levels, due to rounding.
Results are based on administration procedures that did not permit accommodations.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1994 and 2001 Geography Assessments.

Major Findings

The percentage of eighth-graders performing at or above Basic increased since 1994.
In 2001, 30 percent of eighth-graders performed at or above the Proficient achievement level.
There were no statistically significant changes in the percentages of eighth-graders performing at or above Proficient since 1994.

See national achievement-level results in geography for grade 4 and grade 12.

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Last updated 18 June 2002 (DSS)

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