Average geography scale scores by students’ and teachers’ reports on use of computers in the classroom, grades 4, 8, and 12 (public and nonpublic schools combined): 2001

Fourth- and eighth-grade average scores by teachers' reported extent of Internet use: 2001

Twelfth-grade average scores by students' reported extent of Internet and CD-ROM use: 2001

NOTE: Results are based on administration procedures that did not permit accommodations.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2001 Geography Assessment.

Major Findings

• Fourth-graders whose teachers had them use the Internet to a small or moderate extent to locate and retrieve social studies information had higher average scores than those who did not use the Internet at all.
  
  
• Eighth-graders whose teachers had them use the Internet to a large extent had higher average scores than those who used the Internet to a small extent or not at all.
  
  
• Twelfth-graders who reported using the Internet or CD-ROMs for research projects about topics in history or geography to a moderate or large extent had higher average scores than those who said they did so to a small extent or not at all.
  
  

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Last updated 10 May 2002 (DSS)