Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the scores highlight a need to provide more opportunities to learn about America’s history and government. The civics test included open-ended questions that asked, for example, for students to name one advantage of having the government operate programs to provide for the needs of people, and to describe a way that political candidates use technology during political campaigns. The average score at its highest was 154 in 2014. The results, which are on a point scale of 0 to 300, are the first drop since 1998. Just 22% of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level. In civics, the average score dropped 2 points to 150 between 20.
The latest average score was one point lower than the results of the first U.S. Just 13% of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level. history score dropped 5 points to 258, continuing a downward trend that began in 2014. On a point scale of 0 to 500, the average U.S. The National Assessment of Educational Progress - known as the “nation’s report card” - tested about 7,800 students across the country in civics, and 8,000 students in U.S. And so if literacy interventions don’t have a connection to social studies, then we lose ground in social studies instruction,” he said. “But every minute that you redirect to one place, it’s got to come from somewhere else.
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