Civic Education Study – CivEd

Published on Friday, 21 January 2011 09:31

CivEd is a project coordinated by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). Fifty-one countries took an interest in the study, of which twenty-eight resolved to take part. Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Koseła of the Warsaw University Institute of Sociology coordinated the study in Poland.

The goal of CivEd was to describe the level of knowledge and attitudes of citizenship. The project was divided into two stages. The goal of the first stage (1996-1998) was to gather information on the teaching of citizenship and the information necessary to construct instruments to measure pupils’ knowledge of and attitudes to citizenship. In the second phase (1999) 14-year olds were studied using a questionnaire and a test. In 2000 an additional study of knowledge of economics was carried out on 17-year students in Poland and in some other countries.