The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training organized a conference focusing on the results from the ICCS 2009 study and PISA 2009, 29-30 March in Oslo.

The Norwegian ICCS 2009 report was launched the same day as the opening of the conference.

EWC staff participated at the conference. It was a highly fruitful conference where school leaders, policy makers, teachers, representatives from educational organizations, companies and institutions took part. The Norwegian results from both PISA 2009 and ICCS 2009 were presented and compared to the international results.

Senior Analyst Micheal Davidson from OECD was one of the keynote speakers and gave a presentation of the international PISA results 2009.   

The ICCS 2009 European Report presents results of analyses designed to investigate students’
knowledge and understanding of civics and citizenship in a European context and their
perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors with respect to specific European-related civic and political
issues, institutions, and policies.

The report examines differences across countries in these European-specific outcomes as well as variations across European countries in the associations between these outcome variables and with selected student characteristics. The results are based on data collected by way of the regional European and, where relevant, the international instruments.

ICCS was carried out by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).

The ICCS study is the focus of the EWC Educators' Consultations 2011.