In addition to assessing subject-area achievement, NAEP collects information that serves to fulfill reporting requirements of federal legislation and to provide a context for reporting student performance. The legislation requires that, whenever feasible, NAEP include information on special groups (e.g., information reported by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, disability, and limited English proficiency).
As part of most NAEP assessments, four types of questionnaires are used to collect information:
The Background Information Framework, developed by the National Assessment Governing Board in 2003, now guides the collection and reporting of non-cognitive assessment information. In addition, subject-area frameworks provide guidance on subject-specific non-cognitive assessment questions to be included in the questionnaires. Questions being considered for inclusion in the questionnaire are reviewed by experts and are tested with students, teachers, and schools before the actual administration. When developing the questionnaires, NAEP ensures that the questions do not infringe on respondents' privacy, that they are grounded in educational research, and that the answers can provide information relevant to the subject being assessed.
Students complete the questionnaires voluntarily, and their responses are kept confidential. Student names are never reported with their responses or with the other information collected by NAEP.
Students are given ten minutes to complete the questions, typically located at the end of their student assessment booklets. The two sections of student questions each take about five minutes to complete. The teacher, school, and SD/ELL questionnaires are printed in separate booklets. With increasing frequency, teacher and school questionnaires are completed electronically via the MySchool website.
In the web-based NAEP Data Explorer, the results of the questionnaires are sorted into eight broad categories: Major Reporting Groups, Student Factors, Factors Beyond School, Instructional Content and Practice, Teacher Factors, School Factors, Community Factors, and Government Factors.
The following questionnaires are available in PDF format.
Grade 4 | Grade 8 | Grade 12 | |
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Economics (2012) | 159K | ||
Mathematics (2011) | 94K | 109K | |
Reading (2011) | 65K | 92K | |
Science (2011) | 82K | ||
Computer-Based Assessment in Mathematics (2011) | 130K | ||
Computer-Based Assessment in Writing (2011) | 130K | 132K | |
Civics (2010) | 769K | 577K | 1179K |
Geography (2010) | 572K | 677K | 106K |
U.S. History (2010) | 1316K | 1278K | 644K |
Mathematics (2009) | 88K | 111K | 127K |
Reading (2009) | 89K | 99K | 102K |
Science (2009) | 96K | 100K | 118K |
Arts (2008) | 509K | ||
Music (2008) | 505K | ||
Mathematics (2007) | 156K | 106K | |
Reading (2007) | 171K | 118K | |
Writing (2007) | 116K | 126K | |
Civics (2006) | 97K | 112K | 117K |
Economics (2006) | 144K | ||
U.S. History (2006) | 91K | 116K | 120K |
Mathematics (2005) | 69K | 99K | 108K |
Reading (2005) | 92K | 98K | 104K |
Science (2005) | 73K | 83K | 92K |
Grade 4 | Grade 8 | Grade 12 | |
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Writing (2011) |
613K | 708K | |
Reading/Mathematics (2011) |
968K | ||
Reading/Mathematics/Science (2011) |
1248K | ||
Reading/Mathematics/Science/Writing (2011) |
1148K | ||
Civics/Geography/U.S. History/Writing (2010) |
894K | 915K | 955K |
Mathematics, Reading, Science (2009) |
224K | 230K | 246K |
Arts (2008) | 553K | ||
Mathematics, Reading, Writing (2007) | 183K | 187K | 121K |
Civics, Economics, U.S. History, Mathematics, Reading, Writing (2006) | 211K | 210K | 194K |
Math/Reading/Science (2005) | 109K | 116K | 171K |
SD all subjects (2012) |
488K |
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SD Long-Term Trend/Grade 12 (2012) |
526K |
ELL all subjects (2012) |
462K |
ELL Long-term trend/Grade 12 (2012) |
502K |
SD Computer-Based Assessment (2011) |
495K |
SD all subjects (2011) |
532K |
ELL Computer-Based Assessment (2011) |
451K |
ELL (2011) |
502K |
SD all subjects (2010) |
111K |
SD all subjects (2009) |
373K |
ELL all subjects (2010) |
101K |
ELL all subjects (2009) |
370K |
SDArts (2008) |
933K |
SD Long-Term Trend (2008) | 659K |
ELL Arts (2008) | 929K |
ELL Long-Term Trend (2008) | 688K |
SD all subjects (2007) | 709K |
SD all subjects (2006) | 68K |
ELL all subjects (2007) | 672K |
ELL all subjects (2006) | 69K |
SD all subjects (2005) | 76K |
LEP all subjects (2005) | 72K |
Grade 4 | Grade 8 | Grade 12 | |
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Economics—Department Head (2012) |
777K | ||
Reading/Mathematics (2011) |
1071K | ||
Reading (2011) |
754K | ||
Reading/Writing (2011) |
841K | ||
Mathematics (2011) |
798K | ||
Writing (2011) |
681K | ||
Science (2011) |
934K | ||
Civics/Geography/U.S. History/Writing (2010) |
873K | ||
Civics/Geography/U.S. History (2010) |
788K | ||
Writing (2010) |
741K | ||
Mathematics/Reading/Science (2009) |
246K | ||
Mathematics (2009) |
106K | ||
Reading (2009) |
101K | ||
Science (2009) |
117K | ||
Language Arts/Mathematics (2007) | 384K | ||
Mathematics (2007) | 320K | ||
Language Arts (2007) | 121K | ||
Civics, U.S. History (2006) | 200K | 129K | |
Economics (2006) | 116K | ||
Economics Department Head (2006) | 61K | ||
Mathematics (included with U.S. History/Civics at grade 4) (2006) | 200K | 135K | |
Mathematics (2005) | 243K | 207K | |
Reading (2005) | 243K | 187K | |
Science (2005) | 243K | 172K |
Age 9 | Age 13 | Age 17 | |
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Mathematics (2012) | 92K | 95K | 94K |
Reading (2012) | 94K | 95K | 93K |
Mathematics (2008) | 790K | 830K | 872K |
Reading (2008) | 815K | 836K | 853K |
Mathematics/Reading (2004) |
439K |
You may also download questionnaires from 2003. To obtain earlier questionnaires, please contact Sherran Osborne in the NCES Assessment Division at 202-502-7420 or 202-502-7400, or specify the questionnaires you need by writing to Contact Us.
Questionnaires are also available in the Sample Questions booklets, which contain other assessment information and are distributed to schools before each assessment.