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International Civic and Citizenship Education
Study

ICCS 2009

The purpose of the International Civic and Citizenship
Education Study (ICCS) is to investigate the ways in which young people are
prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries. The study
builds on the previous IEA study of civic education (CIVED) undertaken in 1999.
It will report on student achievement on a test of conceptual understandings and
competencies in civic and citizenship education.  It will also collect and
analyze data about student dispositions and attitudes relating to civic and
citizenship education. Teacher and school questionnaires will gather information
about teaching and class management practices, school governance and climate,
and others.

The National Context Survey at the beginning of the study will
collect information about civic and citizenship education and its contexts
(aspects related to political, cultural and educational contexts) in each
participating country.

There will be three regional modules: Asian, European and
Latin American modules.

Target Population

The population to be surveyed will include all students
enrolled in the grade that represents eight years of schooling, counting from
the first year of ISCED Level 1, provided the mean age at the time of testing is
at least 13.5 years.  For most countries the target grade would be the
eighth grade, or its national equivalent. In order to enable a link to CIVED
participating countries which tested a different grade in 1999, they will be
encouraged to assess the same grade in addition to the internationally defined
target grade.

Participating Educational Systems

Austria, Belgium (Flemish), Bulgaria, Chile, Chinese Taipei,
Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Domincan Republic, England, Estonia,
Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Korea,
Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand.

Schedule

The ICCS was initiated in October 2006. The Field Trial took
place in October to December 2007 and Main Survey will take place October -
December 2008 (Southern Hemisphere) and March - April 2009 (Northern
Hemisphere). International report (including regional reports) will be released
in June 2010.

Management

The international coordination is directed by a
consortium consisting of three partner organizations: The Australian Council for
Educational Research (ACER), The National Foundation for Educational Research
(NFER) in England, and the Laboratorio di Pedagogia Sperimentale (LPS) at the
Roma Tre University (Italy).

The International Study Center is located at ACER with Dr
John Ainley as Project Coordinator and Dr Wolfram Schulz as the Research
Director. Dr David Kerr (NFER) and Dr Bruno Losito (LPS) are the Associate
Research Directors for ICCS.

As in other IEA projects, international coordinators cooperate
closely with the IEA Headquarters (The Secretariat in Amsterdam and DPC in
Hamburg).

Funding

Participating countries and IEA are funders of current ICCS.
IEA received for ICCS subsidy from the UNESCO Education Sector, Division for the
Promotion of Quality Education, Section of Education for Peace and Human Rights.
International participation fee is USD 30,000 per year for the four-year
duration of the study, or USD 120,000 in total.

Countries participating in the regional modules receive
financial support from the European Commission (European Module) and the
Inter-American Development Bank (Latin American Module).

For more information, please contact http://iccs.acer.edu.au/

Link to the CIVED Study http://www.wam.umd.edu/~iea/

ICCS

International Civic and Citizenship
Education Study

Target Population

Participating Educational
Systems

Schedule

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