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Initial findings from the IEA international civic and citizenship education study Year of publication: 2010 Author: Wolfram Schulz | John Ainley | Julian Fraillon | David Kerr | Bruno Losito Corporate author: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) The International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) studied the ways in which countries prepare their young people to undertake their roles as citizens. It investigated student knowledge and understanding of civics and citizenship as well as student attitudes, perceptions, and activities related to civics and citizenship. It also examined differences among countries in relation to these outcomes of civic and citizenship education, and it explored how differences among countries relate to student characteristics, school and community contexts, and national characteristics. ICCS considered six research questions concerned with the following:1. Variations in civic knowledge;2. Changes in content knowledge since 1999;3. Student interest in engaging in public and political life and their disposition to do so;4. Perceptions of threats to civil society;5. Features of education systems, schools, and classrooms related to civic and citizenship education; and6. Aspects of student background related to the outcomes of civic and citizenship education.ICCS gathered data from more than 140,000 Grade 8 (or equivalent) students in over 5,300 schools from 38 countries. These student data were augmented by data from more than 62,000 teachers in those schools and by contextual data collected from school principals and the studyโs national research centers. Different approaches to provision of civic and citizenship education were evident in the ICCS countries. These approaches included having a specific subject, integrating relevant content into other subjects, and including content as a cross-curricular theme. Twenty-one of the 38 countries in ICCS included a specific subject concerned with civic and citizenship education in their curriculum. Civic and citizenship education covered a wide range of topics, including knowledge and understanding of political institutions and concepts, such as human rights, as well as newer topics covering social and community cohesion, diversity, the environment, communications, and global society. 
Young People's Views of Government, Peaceful Coexistence, and Diversity in Five Latin American Countries Year of publication: 2018 Author: Wolfram Schulz | John Ainley | Cristiรกn Cox | Tim Friedman Corporate author: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) This report presents the findings of the five Latin American countries that participated in the second cycle of the International Study of Civic and Citizenship Education (ICCS 2016) of the IEA. ICCS 2016 investigated the ways in which various countries are preparing their youth for assume their roles as citizens during the second decade of the XXI century. The study also assume their roles as citizens during the second decade of the XXI century. The study also responded to new challenges in civic and citizenship education, and its findings allow robust comparisons of high school students' attitudes and perceptions to a wide range of aspects related to civic education and citizenship.