Evaluating the Contribution of Schools to the development of Young People as Future Citizens

Authors

Bruno Losito, Roma Tre UniversityFollow
Elisa Caponera, National Institute for the Evaluation of Educational SystemFollow
Cristiano Corsini, Roma Tre UniversityFollow
Paola MirtiFollow

Publication Date

9-2012

Subjects

Student attitudes, Citizenship education, Knowledge level

Comments

Papers about ICCS presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Cádiz (18-21 September 2012)

Abstract

This paper will illustrate how the contribution of schools to students’ civic knowledge and attitudes was analyzed in ICCS 2009. It is divided into three parts. The first part illustrates the constructs and variables included in the ICCS instruments (student, teacher and school questionnaires) and their relationship with findings from previous studies about civic and citizenship education and school effectiveness. The second part of the paper presents some major findings for European countries in relation to the influence of school context on student outcomes. While comparing them with the results from other studies, this paper discusses the extent to which the school variables and the different ways they were collected show associations with learning outcomes. In the third part, this paper explores possible further analyses on ICCS data and presents some examples of these analyses.

Recommended Citation

Losito, B., Caponera, E., Corsini, C., & Mirti, P. (2012). Evaluating the Contribution of Schools to the development of Young People as Future Citizens. https://research.acer.edu.au/civics/55

Language

English, English

Geographic Subject

Europe