Arts Background Questionnaires
In addition to assessing students' knowledge and skills in music, theatre, and visual arts, NAEP collected information from students, school officials, and teachers that helps to put student arts achievement in context.
Student Background Questionnaires
Students answered a range of questions about their backgrounds and in-school and out-of-school arts experiences. To learn how students' responses to questionnaires were used to shed light on student performance in the arts assessment, take a look at the "student profile" for music.
Teacher Questionnaires
To supplement the information on instruction reported by students, the theatre teachers of the targeted students participating in the NAEP theatre assessment were asked to complete a questionnaire about instructional practices, teaching backgrounds, and characteristics. Because the results of the 1995 field tests in music and visual arts showed high percentages of missing data for the music and visual arts teachers' questionnaires, teacher questionnaires were not administered in the 1997 music and visual arts assessments.
School Questionnaires
Principals of students sampled for the assessment were asked to complete a questionnaire about the school's characteristics and students' access to instruction in the arts. Among other topics, the school questionnaire covered the availability of courses in the arts, the status of staff members teaching in the arts, the facilities and available resources for the arts, and the existence of special programs in the arts.
To learn how theatre teachers' and schools' responses to questionnaires were used to shed light on student performance in the arts assessment, take a look at one of the data tables featured in the arts report card.
For more detailed information about the NAEP arts background questionnaires, see Appendix A in the NAEP 1997 Arts Report Card. To download NAEP background questionnaires, go to Background Questionnaires.
Last updated 15 December 2003 (CC)
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