Classroom Context: Civics Instruction

As part of the 2010 civics assessment, fourth-grade teachers were asked to indicate the percentage of social studies instruction time in which they primarily focused on civics/government. The percentage of students whose teachers responded in each category are below.

The percentage of fourth-graders whose teachers spent none of their social studies instructional time on civics/government decreased since 2006 while the percentage of fourth-graders whose teachers spent 11 to 40 percent of their social studies instructional time on civics/government increased since 2006.

Civics Instruction: Grade 4 percentage of students

* significantly different (p < .05) from 2010.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Some apparent differences between estimates may not be statistically significant. See complete data.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2006 and 2010 Civics Assessments.

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