Table 398. | Geography proficiency of 13-year-olds in educational systems participating in the International Assessment of Educational Progress: 1991 |
_______________________________________________________________________________________________ | Average percent correct |__________________________________________________________________________ Country | All geography |Geographic skills | Physical geography|Cultural geography | items\1\ | and tools\2\ | items\3\ | items\4\ ____________________|________________|__________________|___________________|__________________ 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) | | | | Former U.S.S.R.\6\..| 62.6 (1.1) | 72.2 (0.9) | 61.2 (1.0) | 53.4 (1.8) United States\7\....| 61.9 (0.8) | 69.4 (0.6) | 58.3 (1.0) | 58.1 (1.0) Spain\8\............| 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\7\.........| 58.3 (0.6) | 66.2 (0.5) | 57.1 (0.8) | 50.6 (0.8) ____________________|________________|__________________|___________________|__________________ |
\1\All 24 geography items.
NOTE: Standard errors appear in parentheses. 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.) |