Questionnaires

In addition to administering computer and informational literacy (CIL) and computational thinking (CT) assessments, ICILS includes questionnaires for students, teachers, information and communications technologies (ICT) coordinators, and school principals to gather information about the background contexts for ICT.

Topics addressed in the questionnaires include the following:

Student questionnaire: Students complete a questionnaire about their background, access to ICT, use of ICT, and familiarity with ICT at home and at school.
Teacher questionnaire: Teachers complete a questionnaire about their background, use of ICT, attitudes toward using ICT in teaching, and professional development related to ICT.
Principal questionnaire: Principals complete a questionnaire about the characteristics of their school and the broad policies, procedures, and priorities for ICT in their school.
ICT coordinator questionnaire: ICT coordinators in each school complete a questionnaire about ICT resources in their school and the policies and practices that make use of those resources to support learning.

The U.S. versions of the ICILS questionnaires for 2018 and 2023 are available to view, download, and print as PDF files below.

2023
2018

2023

U.S. Student Questionnaire (975 KB)
U.S. Teacher Questionnaire (417 KB)
U.S. Principal Questionnaire (355 KB)
U.S. ICT Coordinator Questionnaire (327 KB)

2018

U.S. Student Questionnaire (448 KB)
U.S. Teacher Questionnaire (222 KB)
U.S. Principal Questionnaire (253 KB)
U.S. ICT Coordinator Questionnaire (196 KB)

The international versions of the questionnaires are included in the ICILS IDB User Guide, which is publicly available in the IEA data repository. Several questions in the student questionnaire were adapted to be appropriate in the U.S. educational and cultural context, and several U.S.-specific questions—such as questions about race/ethnicity—were added to the international versions of the questionnaires.

National Context Questionnaire

Lastly, a national context survey is completed by the national study centers of participating countries to provide information on policies, curricula, resources, and practices related to CIL and CT education from a national perspective. For ICILS 2023, a summary of the national contexts for CIL and CT education is in chapter 2 of the ICILS 2023 International Report.