In order to understand the performances of social srudies of junior high school students under the old and new Curriculum Guidelines, and to find out the factors that affect students’ academic abilities, this study, based on the performance of social studies and subject contents, intends to develop a social literacy assessment framework. This assessment framework includes three dimensions, which are inquiry, affection, and subject training. The researchers also develop online multimedia test items for social literacy in accordance with the assessment framework. The first cohort of study subjects for the present study is the eighth graders, who were seventh graders when enrolled in September 2019 (the last year of the old Curriculum Guidelines). The second cohort of study subjects are seventh graders enrolled in September 2019 (the first year of the new Curriculum Guidelines). These two cohorts of students will be followed by their performance for three consecutive years. We will employ two stage stratified cluster sampling with a sample of about 6,000 students. At the formal test, there will be more than one version of the test booklets. The questions each student answers are not exactly the same. The total number of the test items is about 180 questions. The data collected annually will be analyzed for reliability and validity. We will use partial credit model to estimate the scores with population and subgroups to find out students’ growth and performance under the old and new Curriculum Guidelines, and also to give the educational implications of growth scale. The results of the
