High school graduates’ knowledge about the European Union – analysis based on the exam on civic education in the years 2010–2019 Cover Image

Wiedza maturzystów o Unii Europejskiej – analiza na podstawie egzaminu z wiedzy o społeczeństwie w latach 2010–2019
High school graduates’ knowledge about the European Union – analysis based on the exam on civic education in the years 2010–2019

Author(s): Piotr Załęski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: civic education; European Union; youth; matriculation examination; substantive competences; knowledge about the European Union

Summary/Abstract: In the article, the Author analyses all EU-related tasks in Polish matriculation exam in civic education from the years 2010–2019. The empirical material also includes the rules for assessing tasks’ solutions and exam reports. The level of civic knowledge of young people is not high, but the knowledge about EU-related issues is even worse (it was confirmed that in each type of matriculation exam results of the EU-related tasks were in general lower than the average result of the entire exam incivic education). The analysis also demonstrates that the population of those who pass the „new exam” exam in civic education is qualitatively weaker than the population of those who pass the„old exam”, however, in the EU-related tasks these differences are smaller than the difference in the results of both exam’s formulas (it was confirmed that generally the level of solutions of EU-related tasks in the „new exam” is lower than in the „old exam”, but to a lesser extent than the difference between the average results of these both types of exams).

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 161-181
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish