Civics and American Government
Frequently Asked Questions
Welcome to Civics and American Government!
Welcome to Albert's Civics and American Government course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Civics and American Government course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.
Subject Organization
Albert's Civics and American Government is organized by content themes and further broken down into topics.
Themes
Our full Civics subject guide is designed to include 17 themes:
- Creation of American Democracy
- The Constitution
- State and local governments
- The Legislative Branch
- The Executive Branch
- The Judicial Branch
- Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
- Civil society and Citizenship
- Social Movements and Citizenship Activism
- Political Parties
- Interest Groups
- Elections
- Media
- Political Socialization and Public Opinion
- Public Policy
- Comparative Government and International Relations
- Laws and Policing
Topics
Each theme contains more specific topics. For example, here are the topics within Theme 4 | "The Legislative Branch":
- Structures, Functions, and Powers of the Legislative Branch
- Congressional Districts
Assessments
In addition to our practice guide, Civics and American Government includes topic quizzes that include questions unique from those in our practice guide. Many of our course themes have topic quizzes at this point, with more to come!
Free Response Questions
The Free Response section of Civics and American Government includes Short Answer Questions. Each one contains a rubric, sample answer, and explanation to assist with students' development of historical writing skills.
Using Standards and Tags to Find Questions
Standards
All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter.
This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.
This course also includes Albert’s own Social Studies Standards, which can also be used to search for content. The standards follow the format of Albert Civics 1.A.1 for content standards and Albert Civics Skills 1.A.1 for skills standards.
In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.
Tags
Albert’s courses include two types of tags: content and skill. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as the content tag checks-and-balances or marbury-v-madison. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guide level. Tags are all one to three words long, connected by a dash.
Question Types
Civics and American Government uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.
- Multiple Choice
- Multiple Select
- Two-Way Tables
- Fill-in-the-blank
- Snippet Select
- Free Response
- Short Answer Questions
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