Session Information
09 SES 05 A, Findings from International Comparative Achievement Studies. Symposium Session 1: Relating Achievement to Background Factors in Cross-Sectional and Trend Perspectives
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Contribution
In recent years civic and citizenship education has been the subject of international attention. Questions on the role of a citizen in a democratic society and on factors influencing a citizen’s attitude have increased in importance in many post-Soviet countries since the “third democratic wave” when these countries gained independence. Civic skills, knowledge and attitudes are key elements in theories describing the concept of a citizen. Our research aims to establish a model of students’ civic competence and to enhance our understanding of how the students’ achievement in a test of knowledge, conceptual understanding, and competencies in civic and citizenship education influence civic attitudes. Our research is based on data from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2009), conducted under the auspices of the IEA. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is applied to relate the students’ civic test achievement to civic attitudes. Model comparisons are used to contrast the results for the Latvian and Estonian samples in ICCS 2009. Results show that there is an impact of the students’ civic achievements on their attitudes towards learning foreign languages, ethnic diversity, equality and citizen rights, and that there are differences between the two samples studied.
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