Effects of historical and civic education in the light of external examinations

Effects of history and civic education teaching in junior high school are verifi ed during both internal evaluation and external examination. After introducing a new core curriculum for general education, the junior high school examination was changed as well. In reference to History and Civics those changes were fundamental. A new separate part of the examination was created, which checks the level of knowledge and skills in the fi eld of History and Civics classes. Now it is possible to analyze particular categories of skills more carefully as the number of tasks included in the paper has increased. Due to that fact, the analysis of History teaching results has become more objective. It is less applicable, however, to the results of Civics teaching. The paper analyzes categories of skills and individual skills from exams in the years 2012 and 2013 again. The objective of the research was to look for factors infl uencing the level of performance and the correlation between skills, knowledge and historical epochs which the tasks refer to.