October 18, 2007

geographical illiteracy, by the numbers

Students who took the World Regional Geography quiz on the Americas this week: 19
Median grade: 48
Average grade: 48
Average of the students in the front half of the classroom: 61
Average of the students in the back half of the classroom: 31
Percentage of students who could locate the Amazon river valley on a map of the Americas: 18%

And so forth.

Posted by otto0114 at October 18, 2007 02:52 PM
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That's because the Amazon river is on the Dark Continent - Canada.

Posted by: Fargo#1 at October 25, 2007 07:10 PM

Well... its just nice to know that most of them could locate THE MAP! ;-)
-B

Posted by: The B The at October 30, 2007 09:23 PM
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