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Grade 12 National Results

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  • View student performance by various student groups, including gender, race/ethnicity, parental education, students with disabilities (SD), and English Language Learners (ELL).
  • Move the cursor over data points to see more detail.
  • When viewing average score figures, click on a group within the legend to show detailed information about its performance.
  • When viewing the achievement level or percentile figures, use the drop down menu to show data for each group.
  • Below each figure, click the button for "chart options" to see the data displayed in other chart formats.
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Achievement Levels
Percentiles

The average geography score for male twelfth-graders in 2010 was lower than in 1994, but not significantly different from their average score in 2001. The average geography score for female twelfth-graders in 2010 was not significantly different from their average scores in 1994 and 2001.

 

Read specific descriptions of what twelfth-graders should know and be able to do at the Basic, Proficient, and Advanced geography achievement levels.

Read more information on how to interpret NAEP geography results, including how each student group is defined. Read more about the accommodated and non-accommodated samples for geography.