A research for the appropriate test which assess geographical skills and performance

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Tests which assess geographical skills and performance were collected in England and United States, and were compared with Japanese geography tests at entrance examination. In the results, map skill likes graphicacy is key geographical skill commonly. But ideas of geographical skills, relationships with literacy and decision making, and modes of tests which asses these geographical skills and performance, are different. These modes will bring fruitful suggestions for tests under the new Japanese national curriculum geography.