This open access publication outlines the underlying framework for gathering data on civic
knowledge attitudes and engagement as well as contextual information and it describes the
assessment design for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational
Achievement's (IEA) International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2022. The IEA
International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS) investigates how young people are prepared to
undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st
century. ICCS 2022 is a continuation of two earlier IEA studies ICCS 2009 and ICCS 2016 and
for the first time this survey includes the option of a computer-based assessment. Responding
to enduring and emerging challenges of educating young people in a world where contexts of
democracy and civic participation continue to change the study addresses issues related to
young people's engagement through digital technologies migration and diversity perceptions of
the political system global citizenship and education for sustainable development. Over the
past 50 years IEA has conducted comparative research studies in a range of domains focusing on
educational policies practices and outcomes in many countries around the world. Prior to ICCS
2022 IEA conducted four international comparative studies of civic and citizenship education
with a first survey implemented in 1971 a second one in 1999 third in 2009 and fourth in
2016. ICCS 2022 data will allow education systems to evaluate the strengths of educational
policies both internationally and in a regional context and to measure progress in achieving
critical components of their educational policy agendas.
