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              |                              Average percent correct
              |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Country    | All geography  |Geographic skills | Physical geography|Cultural geography
              | items\1\ (s.e.)|and tools\2\(s.e.)| items\3\ (s.e.)   |items\4\ (s.e.)
--------------|----------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------
      1       |        2       |        3         |         4         |        5
--------------|----------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------
Hungary.......|   69.8   (0.6) |   76.3     (0.5) |    67.8     (0.7) |   65.0     (0.7)
Slovenia......|   65.3   (0.6) |   67.9     (0.5) |    63.6     (0.7) |   64.3     (0.9)
Canada\5\.....|   63.0   (0.5) |   69.5     (0.4) |    61.0     (0.6) |   58.2     (0.6)
Soviet Union  |                |                  |                   |
  (former)\6\.|   62.6   (1.1) |   72.2     (0.9) |    61.2     (1.0) |   53.4     (1.8)
United States.|   61.9   (0.8) |   69.4     (0.6) |    58.3     (1.0) |   58.1     (1.0)
Spain\7\......|   60.1   (0.7) |   62.4     (0.9) |    58.9     (0.7) |   58.9     (1.1)
Korea.........|   59.7   (0.5) |   67.8     (0.5) |    52.1     (0.7) |   60.3     (0.6)
Ireland.......|   58.5   (0.6) |   62.7     (0.6) |    59.5     (0.8) |   52.3     (0.8)
Scotland......|   58.3   (0.6) |   66.2     (0.5) |    57.1     (0.8) |   50.6     (0.8)
--------------|----------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------

1 All 24 geographic items.

2 Eight items testing ability to use maps, charts, and globes.

3 Nine items testing knowledge of location of physical features and concepts of climate.

4 Seven items testing knowledge of cultural entities and interactions between people and their environment.

5 Eight provinces.

6 Schools in 14 republics where instruction is in Russian.

7 Schools where instruction is in Spanish, in all regions except Cataluna.

NOTE.--s.e.=standard error.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The International Assessment of Educational Progress, Learning About The World, 1992. (This table was prepared May 1993.)