The Citizenship Education: Content Knowledge test is designed to determine whether an examinee has the knowledge and skills necessary for a beginning teacher of citizenship education in a secondary school. The test is aligned to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) National Standards for Social Studies teachers.

The test requires the examinee to understand and apply knowledge, concepts, methodologies, and skills across the fields of United States history, world history, government/civics/political science, geography, and economics. A number of the questions are interdisciplinary, reflecting the complex relationships among the social studies fields.

Answering the questions correctly requires knowing, interpreting, and integrating history and social science facts and concepts. The 120 selected-response questions consist of no more than 60 percent knowledge, recall, and/or recognition questions and no less than 40 percent higher-order thinking questions. Some questions are based on interpreting material such as written passages, maps, charts, graphs, tables, cartoons, diagrams, and photographs. Between 10 and 15 percent of the questions contain content reflecting the diverse experiences of people in the United States as related to gender, culture, and/or race, and/or content relating to Latin America, Africa, Asia, or Oceania.

This test may contain some questions that will not count toward your score.