The Development of Instruments to Measure Students Citizenship Knowledge and Skills

Abstract

The evaluation tasks of a K-12 citizenship education curriculum project are numerous, complex and persistent, to say the least. The authors have been working on the evaluation of a citizenship education improvement project in a large Georgia school district. One of the main tasks has been to test student political-citizenship knowledge, skills, and attitudes. This article addresses the concerns of searching for, and finally, developing instruments to assess student citizenship knowledge and skills.