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Item Development for NAEP  Arrow Item Development Process  Arrow Geography Cognitive Items  Arrow Number of Items in the NAEP Geography Assessment, by Content-Dimension Scale and Grade: 2001

Number of geography items, by content-dimension scale and grade: 2001
Grade Total Space and place Environment and society Spatial dynamics and connections
4 90 45 17 28
8 123 54 36 33
12 120 52 30 38
NOTE: The numbers in this table represent the post-scaling counts of items.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2001 Geography Assessment.

View the geography student booklet configurations.

View the framework upon which these items were designed.

Last updated 23 May 2007