Sample Questions

What questions are used in the NAEP civics assessment?

Explore sample questions from the civics assessment, and see how the NAEP civics questions relate to student performance.

• View all the questions released from the 2010 assessment in the NAEP Questions Tool.
  
• Download the Civics Framework for the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
  
• See what students at each achievement level are likely to know and can do by viewing item maps.
  
• Test yourself in other NAEP subjects.

Test Yourself in Civics

Select one of the grade tabs below to try out questions from the 2010 NAEP civics assessment. After answering all the questions, compare your score with that of students nationally. A very limited number of civics items were released at Grade 8 so no sample items are available.