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Download full textNational Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Nationally representative samples of about 7,000 fourth-graders, 9,500 eighth-graders, and 10,000 twelfth-graders participated in the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in geography. At each grade, students responded to questions designed to measure their knowledge of geography in the context of space and place, environment…
Descriptors: Geography, National Competency Tests, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. Program Implementation and Review Branch. – 1988
An Ontario (Canada) provincial review of geography instruction was undertaken to: (1) determine student achievement levels and program effectiveness; (2) identify implementation strategies for a compulsory course, entitled "Canadian Studies Geography"; and (3) pilot test a new review model designed to analyze intended, implemented, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research
Hanson, Bradley A.; Bay, Luz; Loomis, Susan Cooper – 1998
Research studies using booklet classification were implemented by the American College Testing Program to investigate the linkage between the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Achievement Levels Descriptions and the cutpoints set to represent student performance with respect to the achievement levels. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Cutting Scores, Discriminant Analysis
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2001 geography results show student improvement since 1994 at grades 4 and 8. The average score of twelfth-grade students, however, has not changed significantly when compared to 1994 results. This colorfully illustrated and easy-to-read report, which highlights findings of "The Nation's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography
Lazer, Stephen – 1992
As a step toward acquiring international measures of geographic competence of students, an optional geography component was included in the second International Assessment of Educational Progress. Nine of the 20 countries participating in the assessment included the geography component, including 8 provinces. In each country a representative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Family Environment, Geographic Concepts
Weiss, Andrew R.; Lutkus, Anthony D.; Hildebrant, Barbara S.; Johnson, Matthew S. – 2002
In 2001, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) conducted a geography assessment of the nation's fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students. This report presents the results of that assessment. Results in 2001 are compared to results of 1994's NAEP geography assessment, which was the preceding NAEP geography assessment and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Finn, Chester E., Jr., Ed.; Petrilli, Michael J., Ed. – 2000
In 1998, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation reviewed state academic standards in English language arts/reading, history, geography, mathematics, and science--the five essential subjects identified at the 1998 "education summit." Because many states have changed their standards in the past 2 years, the Foundation has evaluated them again. The news is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Core Curriculum, Criteria
Persky, Hilary R.; And Others – 1996
This book reports on the 1994 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) assessment in geography for grades 4, 8, and 12. Students performance is summarized on a scale ranging from 0 to 500 with the achievement levels of Basic, Proficient and Advanced for each grade. Major findings for the nation include: (1) The Proficient level was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography
PDF pending restorationManitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. – 1991
The "sciences humaines" provincial assessment was conducted in June 1991 in Franco-Manitoban (Canadian) schools and in the French immersion program. Tests were administered to students in grades 8 and 10. Test results are presented in two preliminary reports, one for Franco-Manitoban schools and the present report for French immersion…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Foreign Countries
Rock, Donald A.; And Others – 1995
This report documents the development and validation of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) cognitive test battery. The cognitive test battery assesses growth between grades 8 and 12 in the content areas of reading comprehension, mathematics, science, and history/citizenship/geography. The battery was part of the NELS:88…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Bayesian Statistics, Citizenship Education
Matheson, Nancy; And Others – 1996
This publication compiles a comprehensive set of educational indicators using data from a variety of sources and presents results of interest to a U.S. audience about education in the United States and other countries. International indicators provide the United States with an opportunity to compare its performance with that of other countries, to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Cross Cultural Studies
Livingston, Andrea, Ed.; Wirt, John, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2003
This publication contains a sample of the 44 indicators in "The Condition of Education 2003." The indicators in this publication are numbered sequentially, rather than according to their numbers in the complete edition. The Contents page offers a cross reference between the two publications. Since 1870, the federal government has…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Family Characteristics, Poverty
