NAEP Geography Press Release Presentation: Slide 7
National Scale Score Results Across Years

• 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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Significantly different from 1994.
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.