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Acknowledgment
Dr. Thomas Larsen and Dr. Richard G. Boehm provided helpful suggestions on an earlier draft of this article.
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Notes
1 Additional details about these indicators are reported in: Solem, M. The National Assessment of Educational Progress: A Closer Look at US Gaps and Trends in Geography Achievement. Book chapter in press, Assessment in Geographical Education, Springer.
2 NAEP also assessed the geographic proficiency of students at the 4th- and 12th-grades in 1994, 2001, and 2010.
3 Technical documentation is available that provides information about the procedures and methods of NAEP. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/tdw/
4 The NAEP Data Explorer can be accessed at https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/data/
5 Videos of the sessions are available for viewing at http://www.ncrge.org/research-symposium-highlights-large-scale-federal-datasets-for-analyzing-school-geographies-and-inequality-in-student-outcomes/
6 For this to happen, geography will need to be reinstated in the NAEP assessment schedule. In 2019, the National Assessment Governing Board eliminated geography as an assessed subject.
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Michael Solem
Michael Solem is a Professor of Geography at Texas State University and Co-Director of the National Center for Research in Geography Education. He serves the American Association of Geographers (AAG) as Senior Advisor for Geography Education. In 2015, he was awarded AAG Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education.