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(343 KB)The Teacher Listing Form collects the full list of teachers from a school, along with information on grades and subject matter taught, demographic characteristics and full or part-time teaching status. This information is necessary to draw the teacher sample and send out the Teacher questionnaire.
The School District Questionnaire consists of items about student enrollments, teacher recruitment and hiring practices, existence of a teacher union, length of the contract year, teacher salary schedules, school choice, magnet programs, high school graduation requirements, professional development for teachers and administrators, and oversight of homeschooled students. New topics added to the 2003-04 questionnaire include principal hiring practices and instructional aide hiring practices.
The SASS School Questionnaires are being delivered to traditional and nontraditional public schools, including Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and public charter schools, and private schools. Items cover grades offered, number of students enrolled, counts of all types of staff, methods of covering teaching vacancies, high school graduation rates, programs and services offered, and college attendance rates.
In 2003-04, data collection for the private school component of SASS coincides with the administration of NCES' Private School Survey (PSS) which is not a component of SASS. PSS is administered to all of the nation's private schools every two years and is the sampling frame for other NCES surveys of private schools.
Since both PSS and SASS are being administered in 2003-04, in an effort to reduce respondent burden, the private schools in the SASS sample are not being sent a PSS questionnaire. Instead, the SASS Private School Questionnaire contains the PSS items.
The School Principal Questionnaires collect information about principal or school head demographic characteristics, training, experience, salary, and perceptions about school decision-making and school climate.
The SASS Teacher Questionnaires collect data from teachers about their education and training, teaching assignment, certification, professional development, workload, and perceptions and attitudes about teaching.
The School Library Media Center Questionnaire asks public schools about their access to and use of a variety of information technologies. The questionnaire collects data on: library collections, media equipment and use of technology, staffing, and student services. A section on information literacy has been added to the 2003-04 questionnaire.
