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NAEP Instruments → Teacher, School, and Students With Disabilities and Limited-English-Proficient (SD/LEP) Students Questionnaires → Teacher Questionnaire

Teacher Questionnaire

To provide supplemental information about the instructional experiences reported by students, the teacher for the subject in which students are being assessed at grades 4 and 8 completes a questionnaire about instructional practices, teaching background, and related information. Content of the teacher questionnaires for the 2000 assessment differed from that of the 2001 questionnaires.

NAEP 2000 Teacher Questionnaire

Part I: Background, Education, and Training includes questions pertaining to:

  • teacher's gender and race/ethnicity;
  • years of teaching experience;
  • certification, degrees, major and minor fields of study;
  • coursework in education;
  • coursework in specific subject areas;
  • amount of in-service training;
  • extent of control over instructional issues; and
  • availability of resources for their classroom.

Part II: Classroom Organization and Language Arts Instruction includes questions pertaining to:

  • extent of instructional activities in class;
  • time spent on language arts tasks; and
  • types of materials used by the teacher to form his or her reading program.

Part III: Professional Development

Part IV: Accountability includes the following sections:

  • Section A: Language Arts Content Strands
  • Section B: State Language Arts Assessment
  • Section C: State Accountability System

NAEP 2001 Teacher Questionnaire

Part I: Background, Education, and Resources includes questions pertaining to:

  • years of teaching experience;
  • certification, degrees, major and minor fields of study;
  • coursework in education;
  • coursework in specific subject areas; and
  • amount of in-service training.

Part II: Computer Resources and Technical Assistance in the School

Part III: Classroom Organization and Social Studies Instruction includes questions pertaining to:

  • frequency of homework assignments;
  • extent of instructional activities in class;
  • extent to which state or local standards impact instructional practices; and
  • use of computers in class.

Part IV: Professional Development - Language Arts (in the grade 4 teacher questionnaire only)

Links to NAEP teacher questionnaires (in PDF format), by grade and assessment year: 2000 and 2001
Subject Grade 4 Grade 8
Mathematics (2000) 153KB pdf file (153KB) 116KB pdf file (116KB)
Reading (2000) 75KB pdf file (75KB) †
Science (2000) 145KB pdf file (145KB) 136KB pdf file (136KB)
Geography/U.S. history (2001) 122KB pdf file (122KB) 173KB pdf file (173KB)
† Not applicable; NAEP assessed reading only at the grade 4 level in 2000.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
Last updated 17 June 2008 (MH)

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