Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Executive summary -- About the study -- Key findings -- Provision of civic and citizenship education -- Civic knowledge -- Student civic engagement -- Student attitudes toward important issues in society -- School contexts for civic and citizenship education -- Explaining variation in students' civic knowledge and expected engagement -- Implications of findings -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction to the International Study of Civic and Citizenship Education -- Background -- Previous IEA studies of civic and citizenship education and the establishment of ICCS -- Global developments since ICCS 2009 -- Areas of broadened scope in ICCS 2016 -- Research questions -- RQ 1 How is civic and citizenship education implemented in participating countries? -- RQ 2 What is the extent and variation of students' civic knowledge within and across participating countries? -- RQ 3 What is the extent of students' engagement in different spheres of society, and which factors within or across countries are related to it? -- RQ 4 What beliefs do students in participating countries hold regarding important civic issues in modern society and what are the factors influencing their variation? -- RQ 5 How are schools in the participating countries organized with regard to civic and citizenship education, and what is its association with students' learning outcomes? -- Participating countries, populations, and sample design -- The ICCS 2016 assessment framework -- The ICCS contextual framework -- Contexts assessed in ICCS 2016 -- Data collection and ICCS instruments -- Links to ICCS and reporting changes since 2009 -- Report context and scope -- References -- CHAPTER 2: National contexts for civic and citizenship education -- Chapter highlights -- Conceptual background and prior research.

Education systems and national contexts -- Level of autonomy in school decision-making -- Level of autonomy in planning civic and citizenship education at school -- Profiles of civic and citizenship curricula and approaches -- Aims of civic and citizenship education -- Contexts for teacher preparation -- References -- CHAPTER 3: Students' civic knowledge -- Chapter highlights -- Introduction -- Assessing student knowledge -- Developing the described scale of students' civic knowledge -- Establishing the scale in ICCS 2009 -- Extending the scale in ICCS 2016 -- Sample ICCS test items -- Sample item 1: Below Level D -- Sample items 2 and 3: Level D -- Sample item 4: Level C -- Sample item 5: Level B -- Sample items 6, 7, and 8: Levels C, B, and A -- Comparison of civic knowledge across countries -- Average civic knowledge scores across countries -- Average civic knowledge scores across countries -- Variations across countries with respect to associations between civic knowledge, Human Development Index, and student age -- Changes in civic knowledge since 2009 -- Variations in civic knowledge across countries with respect to student background characteristics -- Gender differences in civic knowledge -- Student age and civic knowledge within countries -- Associations between civic knowledge and socioeconomic background characteristics -- Associations between civic knowledge and immigrant and language backgrounds -- References -- CHAPTER 4: Aspects of students' civic engagement -- Chapter highlights -- Conceptual background and prior research -- Personal engagement with political and social issues -- Students' participation in civic activities at school -- Students' actual and expected civic participation outside school -- References -- CHAPTER 5: Students' attitudes toward important issues in society -- Chapter highlights.

Conceptual background and prior research -- Students' attitudes toward democracy and citizenship -- Students' attitudes toward equal opportunities -- Students' perceptions of global issues, trust in institutions, and attitudes toward the influence of religion in society -- References -- CHAPTER 6: School contexts for civic and citizenship education -- Chapter highlights -- Conceptual background and prior research -- Participatory processes and social interactions at school -- School and classroom climate -- Different forms of bullying at school -- Implementation of civic and citizenship education at schools -- Activities related to environmental sustainability at school -- Civic and citizenship activities in classrooms and teacher preparation -- References -- CHAPTER 7: Explaining variation in students' civic knowledge and expected civic engagement -- Chapter highlights -- Conceptual background -- Explaining variation in civic knowledge: the history of IEA studies and the background provided by theoretical approaches -- Explaining variation in expected civic participation in the future -- References -- CHAPTER 8: Main findings and implications for policy and practice -- Summary of main findings -- National contexts for civic and citizenship education -- Student knowledge and understanding of civics and citizenship -- Aspects of students' civic engagement -- Students' attitudes toward important issues in society -- School contexts for civic and citizenship education -- Explaining variation in students' civic knowledge and expected engagement -- Comparing student outcomes across countries -- Implications for policy and practice -- Outlook -- References -- APPENDIX A: SAMPLING INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION RATES -- APPENDIX B: REGRESSION ANALYSIS FOR CIVIC KNOWLEDGE AND AGE -- APPENDIX C: STUDENT PERCENTAGES FOR DICHOTOMOUS VARIABLES.

APPENDICE D: ITEM MAPS -- References -- APPENDIX E: PAIR-WISE COMPARISONS OF CIVIC KNOWLEDGE -- APPENDIX F: ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN ICCS 2016.

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