International civic and citizenship education study - iccs - IEA

Example Items 2 and 3
Example Items 2 and 3 were presented together as a unit in the ICCS field trial. A unit is one
or more items that appear in sequence and refer to a common theme or set of information.
Example item 2 accesses:
• Content Domain 1: Civic Society and Systems
o Sub-domain: State institutions
• Aspect: Government
o Key concept: Power/authority
• Cognitive Domain 2: Reasoning and analyzing
o Process: Generalize
The United Nations has election monitors who check whether national elections have taken place fairly.
The United Nations can only send election monitors to visit a country if the government of that country
asks them to come.
asked the United Nations to monitor their national election. After the election, the election
monitors reported that the election was fair.
E2 How does the report that the election was fair help the newly elected government lead
?
People who did not vote for the new government are more likely to change their minds and
agree with all the decisions the new government makes.
* People who did not vote for the new government are more likely to accept the authority of the
new government to make decisions.
Note: • = correct answer.
People who voted for the new government are more likely to vote for it again in the future.
People who voted for the new government are more likely to agree with everything it does.
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