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Large-scale assessment

International Civic and Citizenship Education Study.

ICCS

What it measures
Civic knowledge and reasoning at grade 8, plus civic attitudes, engagement, and perceptions of civic institutions and society; regional modules for Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Length and format
Rotated cognitive test blocks plus an extensive set of attitude and engagement scales. multiple-choice and constructed-response cognitive items; Likert attitude items (performance/ability test plus self-report questionnaire attitude scales)
Language versions
Fielded in the national languages of every participating system under IEA translation-verification procedures.
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
mixed

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Reference
Schulz, W., Ainley, J., Losito, B., Fraillon, J., et al. (2023). IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2022: International Report. IEA / Springer. https://www.iea.nl/studies/iea/iccs

https://www.iea.nl/studies/iea/iccs

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