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ICCS ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORKCivics and Citizenship Framework(Content and Cognitive Domains)
National Research Coordinators Meeting Amsterdam, 16 - 19 October 2006
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Links to CIVED
• ICCS C&C framework incorporates the three CIVED domains.
• CIVED trend items will be included in ICCS.
• ICCS C&C framework aims to extend CIVED model and increase specificity.
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ICCS C&C Framework Structure
The three affective-behavioural domains are:
• Domain 1: Values
• Domain 2: Attitudes
• Domain 3: Behaviours
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ICCS C&C Framework Structure
The three cognitive domains are:
• Domain 1: Knowing
• Domain 2: Reasoning
• Domain 3: Analysing
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ICCS C&C Framework Structure
The four content domains are:
• Domain 1: Civic Society and Systems
• Domain 2: Civic Orientations
• Domain 3: Civic Practices
• Domain 4: Civic Identities
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ICCS C&C Framework Structure – Content Domains
• Sub-domain: This refers to a substantive or contextual component of a domain. The sub-domains have been described where they include sufficient discrete content to warrant individual definition and articulation.
• Aspect: This refers to specific content that is regarded as being largely situated with a given sub-domain.
• Key Concept: This refers to conceptual content or process that is common to Sub-domains within a given domain.
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Citizens
State institutions
Civil institutions
Sub-domains
power/authority rules/law democracy sovereigntynation-building statelessness franchise/voting human rightsdecision-making/negotiation
Key concepts (e.g.)
are expressed within
governments legislatures
responsibilities roles
bureaucracies political parties
consist of
Aspects (e.g.)
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ICCS C&C Framework Structure
From concepts to assessment measures(What will be assessed?)• Perceptions questionnaire – construct
scales– Constructs to be identified in C&C
framework
• Cognitive test - achievement scale(s)– Items to sample the content of the
domains in the framework
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Domain 1 Civic society and systems
Sub-domain: Citizens focuses on the civic relationships between individual and groups of citizens and their societies.
Aspects Roles Rights Responsibilities Community capacity building
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Sub-domain: State Institutions are those that are central to the processes and enacting of civic governance and legislation in the common interest of the people they represent and serve.
Aspects • Parliaments • Governments• Supranational governance bodies • Legislatures • Judiciaries and law enforcement bodies• Bureaucracies (civil or public services)• Electoral commissions.
Domain 1Civic society and systems
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Domain 1 Civic society and systems
• Religious institutions• Companies/corporations• Non-governmental
organisations (NGOs)• Cultural/special interest
organisations
Sub-domain: Civil institutions are those institutions that can mediate citizens’ contact with their state institutions and allow citizens actively to pursue many of their roles in their societies. Aspects
• Pressure groups• The media• Schools• Trade unions • Political parties
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Domain 1Civic society and systems
• power/authority• rules/law• constitution• governance• decision-making• negotiation• democracy• sovereignty
• nation-building• statelessness• franchise/voting• human rights• the economy• sustainable
development• globalisation
Key concepts
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Domain 1Civic society and systems
What will be assessed? Constructs accessed by the student
perceptions questionnaire items in this domain could be related to:
• Beliefs about the roles of citizens in a democracy
• Perceptions of the effectiveness of participation
• Trust in civic systems
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Domain 1Civic society and systems
What will be assessed?
Some examples of elements that may be accessed by the cognitive test items in this domain are:
• Knowing the key aspects of democracy
• Analysing civic policy
• Reasoning about the attributes and powers of state and civil institutions.
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Domain 2 Civic orientations
Sub-domain: The orientation towards equity refers to the concept that all people are born equal in dignity and rights and that protecting and promoting this principle is essential to achieving peace, harmony and productivity within and between communities.
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Domain 2Civic orientations
Sub-domain: The orientation towards freedom refers to the concept that all people should have freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom from fear and freedom from want as articulated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. The orientation towards freedom includes the position to the notion that communities have a responsibility to protect actively the freedom of their members and to support the protection of freedom in all communities including those that are not their own.
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Domain 2Civic orientations
Sub-domain: The orientation towards social cohesion refers to the concept that social cohesion is an essential element of a community’s social well-being. The orientation towards social cohesion sub-domain accommodates the range of perspectives that individuals’ will have about social cohesion within their own and within other communities.
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Domain 2Civic orientations
• Concern for the common good• Empathy• Respect• Social justice• Inclusiveness
Key concepts
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Domain 2Civic orientations
What will be assessed? Constructs accessed by the student
perceptions questionnaire items in this domain could be related to:
• Beliefs about the importance of civil rights
• Attitudes towards immigration
• Attitudes towards social justice.
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Domain 2Civic orientations
What will be assessed? Some examples of elements that may
be accessed by the cognitive test items in this domain are:
• Knowing the key aspects of the common good
• Analysing the relationship between multiculturalism and inter-cultural tensions
• Reasoning about the manifestations of freedom in different contexts.
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Domain 3Civic practices
Sub-domain: Decision-making refers to active participation that directly results in the implementation of policy or practice regarding the individual’s community or a group within that community.
Aspects• Engaging in organisational governance • Voting
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Domain 3Civic practices
Sub-domain: Influencing refers to action aimed at informing and affecting any or all of the policies, practices and attitudes of others or groups of others in the individual’s community.
Aspects • Engaging in public debate • Engaging in public protest• Engaging in policy development through a
political youth organisation or youth forum• Selective purchasing of products according
to ethical beliefs about the way they were produced (ethical consumption/ethical consumerism)
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Domain 3Civic practices
Sub-domain: Community participation refers to participation with a primary focus on enhancing one’s connections with a community and for ultimate benefit of the community.
Aspects• Volunteering• Participating in religious, cultural and
sporting organisations• Keeping oneself informed• Acting on/responding to reflections on past
actions
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Domain 3Civic practices
Key Concepts
• Civic participation
• Civic self-efficacy
• Co-operation/ collaboration
• Negotiation/resolution
• Engagement
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Domain 3Civic practices
What will be assessed? Constructs accessed by the student
perceptions questionnaire items in this domain could be related to:
• Beliefs about the importance of citizenship participation
• Citizenship self-efficacy
• Expected political participation
• Expected social participation as citizens
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Domain 3Civic practices
What will be assessed? Some examples of the types of
behavioural indicators of active citizenship that will be collected are:
• Discussions of political or social issues• Accessing media information• Participating in civic-related
organisations in the community• Engaging in school-based civic-related
activities
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Domain 3Civic practices
What will be assessed?
Some examples of elements that may be accessed by the cognitive test items in this domain are:
• Analysing citizens’ motivations for participation in civic action
• Knowing differing governance options
• Reasoning about a negotiation process
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Sub-domain: Civic self-image refers to the combination of an individual’s beliefs and feelings about their place in each of their civic communities.
• civics and citizenship values• management of multiple civic identities• recognition of self related C&C dilemmas,
understanding/evaluation of the derivation of dilemmas and of possible personal responses
Domain 4Civic identities
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Domain 4Civic identities
Sub-domain: Civic connectedness refers to the individual’s sense of the connection they have to their different civic communities and the different civic roles they play within each community.
• identity within groups• management of diversity of ideas/beliefs
within group• management of multiple identities and
perspectives within and across groups
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Domain 4Civic identities
Key concepts
• Civic self-concept
• Interdependence
• Multiplicity
• Diversity
• Cultures/ location
• Patriotism
• Civic and citizenship values
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Domain 4Civic identities
What will be assessed?
Constructs accessed by items in the student perceptions questionnaire in this domain could be related to:
• Attitudes towards the nation• Citizenship self-concept• Interdependence.
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Domain 4Civic identities
What will be assessed? Some examples of elements that may be
accessed by the cognitive test items in this domain are:
• Reasoning about the development of civic identity
• Analysing the relationships between an individual’s multiple civic identities
• Analysing the nature and sources of conflict between different cultural values
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Content Domain Cog. Att-Behav
Civic Systems and Citizens
Civic Orientations
Civic Practices
Civic Identities
Structural Modifications being Considered AD (V3) From:
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Structural Modifications being Considered AD (V3) To:
Content Domain Cog Att -Beh
State (?)
Systems
Orientations
Practices
Identities
Civil (far)
Systems
Orientations
Practices
Identities
Civil (near)
Systems
Orientations
Practices
Identities
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Structural Modifications being Considered AD (V3)
• Combining Civic Orientations and Civic Identities to comprise one Domain (Civic foundations/fundamentals)
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Substantive Modifications being Considered AD (V3)
• Name changes– Equity to become Equality– Civic Orientations to Civic Principles OR
(depending on restructure) Civic Foundations/Fundamentals
– State Institutions to become Supranational(?) and State Institutions
• Additional concept definition– Add Nationalism as a separate Key
Concept to Patriotism
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Cognitive domain 1: Knowing
Define: Recall or recognise statements that define civic and citizenship concepts and content.
Describe: Recall or recognise statements that describe the key characteristics of civic and citizenship concepts and content.
Illustrate with examples: Provide or recognise examples that support or clarify statements about civic and citizenship concepts and content.
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Cognitive domain 2: Reasoning
Interpret information: Make or recognise statements about information presented in textual, graphical or tabular form that make sense of the information in the light of a civic and citizenship concept.
Relate: Use the key defining aspects of a civic and citizenship concept to explain or recognise how an example illustrates a concept.
Justify: Use evidence and civic and citizenship concepts to construct or recognise a reasoned argument to support a point of view.
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Cognitive domain 2: Reasoning
Integrate: Make or recognise connections between different concepts across themes and civic and citizenship content domains.
Generalise: Provide or recognise civic and citizenship conceptual principles that have been manifest as specific examples and explain how these may apply in other civic and citizenship contexts.
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Cognitive domain 3: AnalysingEvaluate: Make or recognise judgements about
the advantages and disadvantages of alternative points of view or approaches to civic and citizenship concepts and actions.
Solve problems: Provide or recognise courses of action or thought that can be used to alleviate civic and citizenship problems that have been expressed as conflict, tension or unresolved or contested ideas.
Hypothesise: Make or recognise predictions about the effects and outcomes of civic and citizenship policies, strategies or actions.
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Cognitive domain 3: Analysing
Reflect: Make or recognise judgements about the outcomes of completed civic actions.
Understand civic motivation: Provide or recognise the factors that motivate individuals’ or groups’ civic action.
Understand civic change: Identify and explain the factors and processes that lead to change in the substance and structure of civic and citizenship concepts and entities.
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Substantive Modifications being Considered CD (V3)
• Domain 3 – Subsume Reflect into Evaluate
• Replace reference to ‘provide or recognise’ with ‘identify’ where appropriate.