Assessment Tools to Measure Students’ Attainment of Civic Competency

The Campaign, in partnership with the National Center for Learning and Citizenship (NCLC) at the Education Commission of the States (ECS), has developed assessment instruments to measure both student attainment of civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions, as well as a school’s civic climate and how well it has embraced its civic mission.

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The student assessment tools seek a middle ground between performance assessment instruments, such as student portfolios and exhibitions of learning, and more narrow multiple choice assessments.

Many of the Campaign’s state applicants have identified the exclusion of civic learning from the accountability system as a primary culprit for crowding out civic learning as an educational priority in schools.  These assessment tools support states and districts that want to build civic education into their accountability systems.