Geography achievement-level results by race/ethnicity, 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 (where the bar is too small, the percentage within the achievement level is presented, in parentheses, to the left of the bar).

Significantly different from 1994.
# Percentage is between 0.0 and 0.5.
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, White students showed an increase since 1994 in the percentages at or above Basic.
  
  
• There were higher percentages of White students and Asian/Pacific Islander students at or above the Basic and Proficient levels than Black and Hispanic students.

See the national geography achievement-level results by race/ethnicity for grade 4 and grade 12.

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Last updated 9 April 2002 (DSS)