Geography achievement-level results by gender, 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.

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 range 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

• At grade 8, there was no statistically significant change in the percentage of male or female students at or above the Basic and Proficient achievement levels since 1994.
  
  
• At grade 8 in 2001, there was a higher percentage of male students at or above Proficient and at Advanced than female students.
  
  

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Last updated 2 May 2002 (DSS)