The evaluation tasks of a K-12 citizenship education curriculum project are numerous, complex and persistent, to say the least. The authors have been working on the evaluation of a citizenship education improvement project in a large Georgia school district. One of the main tasks has been to test student political-citizenship knowledge, skills, and attitudes. This article addresses the concerns of searching for, and finally, developing instruments to assess student citizenship knowledge and skills.
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