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School Questionnaire – Grade 8

This questionnaire should be completed by the principal or the head of the school.

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During the 2010–2011 school year, a sample of students across the country, including some students from your school, will be given a series of questions as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The current assessment focuses on achievement in reading, mathematics, science, and writing. As part of the assessment, NAEP will investigate the relationship between students’ achievement and various school, teacher, and home factors that may influence this achievement. We are asking your school to complete this questionnaire about school factors. This questionnaire should be completed by the principal or other head administrator.

We realize that you are very busy; however, we urge you to complete the questionnaire as carefully as possible. The information you provide is being collected for research purposes only and will be kept strictly confidential.

NAEP is authorized under Public Law 107–110. While your participation is voluntary, your responses to these questions are needed to make this survey accurate and complete.

Instructions

Please record your answers online, following the instructions on the front cover. If you do not have Internet access, please answer questions directly on this questionnaire by filling in the appropriate ovals.

If you do answer questions directly on this questionnaire, please return the questionnaire to your school’s NAEP coordinator when you are finished.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

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SCHOOL QUESTIONNAIRE

GRADE 8

During the 2010–2011 school year, a sample of students across the country, including some students from your school, will be given a series of questions as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The current assessment focuses on achievement in reading, mathematics, science, and writing. As part of the assessment,NAEP will investigate the relationship between students’ achievement and various school,teacher, and home factors that may influence this achievement. We are asking your school to complete this questionnaire about school factors. This questionnaire should be completed by the principal or other head administrator.

We realize that you are very busy; however, we urge you to complete the questionnaire as carefully as possible. The information you provide is being collected for research purposes only and will be kept strictly confidential.

NAEP is authorized under Public Law 107–110. While your participation is voluntary, your responses to these questions are needed to make this survey accurate and complete.

Instructions

Please record your answers online, following the instructions on the front cover. If you do not have Internet access, please answer questions directly on this questionnaire by filling in the appropriate ovals.

If you do answer questions directly on this questionnaire, please return the questionnaire to your school’s NAEP coordinator when you are finished.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

School Questionnaire – Grade 8

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3. Approximately what percentage of eighth-graders in your school is new this year?

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14. During this school year, about what percentage of students in your school was eligible to receive a free or reduced-price lunch through the National School Lunch Program?

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1. Is there a science specialist or coach available (full- or part-time) to eighth-graders at your school?

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This section should be completed by the principal or the head of the school. If your schoolis a charter school, please continue. If your school is not a charter school, you have finishedthe survey. Thank you for your time.

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