National average geography scale score results, grades 4, 8, and 12 (public and nonpublic schools combined): 1994 and 2001

Significantly different from 1994.
NOTE: 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

• Students at grades 4 and 8 had higher average scale scores in 2001 than in 1994, the first year in which the current geography framework was used.
  
  
• There was no significant difference in the average scale score for twelfth-graders since 1994.
  
  

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