National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2012 Wave I (LTT Reading and Mathematics)

THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS

Wave 1 Submittal for 2012
VOLUME II
Part 3b
BACKGROUND QUESTIONS
FOR 2012 ASSESSMENT

Student Age 17 Core + Reading

Part 3b contains:
Student Age 17 Core + Reading Questions
The amount of time estimated to complete this form is 15 minutes.

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In this section, please tell us about yourself and your family. The section has 17 questions.
Mark your answers in your booklet.

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1. Are you Hispanic or Latino? Fill in one
or more ovals.

2. Which of the following best describes
you? Fill in one or more ovals.

A No, I am not Hispanic or Latino.

A White

B Yes, I am Mexican, Mexican

B Black or African American

American, or Chicano.

C Asian
C Yes, I am Puerto Rican or Puerto
Rican American.

D American Indian or Alaska Native

D Yes, I am Cuban or Cuban

E Native Hawaiian or other Pacific

American.

Islander

E Yes, I am from some other
Hispanic or Latino background.

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For the rest of the questions in this section, fill in only one oval for each question.
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3. Does your family get a newspaper at
least four times a week?

7. Is there an encyclopedia in your home?
It could be a set of books, or it could be
on the computer.

A Yes
A Yes
B No
B No
C I don’t know.
C I don’t know.
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4. Does your family get any magazines
regularly?

8. About how many pages a day do you
have to read in school and for
homework?

A Yes
A 5 or fewer
B No
B 6–10
C I don’t know.
C 11–15
D 16–20
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5. About how many books are there in
your home?

E More than 20

A Few (0–10)

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9. How much time did you spend on
homework yesterday?

B Enough to fill one shelf (11–25)
C Enough to fill one bookcase (26–100)

A No homework was assigned.

D Enough to fill several bookcases

B I had homework but didn’t do it.

(more than 100)

C Less than 1 hour
D 1 to 2 hours
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6. Is there a computer at home that
you use?

E More than 2 hours

A Yes
B No

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10. How often do you talk about things you
have studied in school with someone in
your family?

13. How far in school did your mother go?

A She did not finish high school.

A Never or hardly ever

B She graduated from high school.

B Once every few weeks

C She had some education after high
school.

C About once a week
D She graduated from college.
D Two or three times a week
E I don’t know.
E Every day
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14. How far in school did your father go?
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11. How many days were you absent from
school in the last month?

A He did not finish high school.
B He graduated from high school.

A None
C He had some education after high
B 1 or 2 days

school.

C 3 or 4 days

D He graduated from college.

D 5 to 10 days

E I don’t know.

E More than 10 days

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12. How much television do you usually
watch each day?

A None
B 1 hour or less
C 2 hours
D 3 hours
E 4 hours
F 5 hours
G 6 hours or more

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15. How often do people in your home talk
to each other in a language other than
English?

16. Which of the following best describes
your high school program?

A General
A Never
B Academic or college preparatory
B Once in a while
C Vocational or technical
C About half of the time
D All or most of the time

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17. How often do you do each of the following things?
Almost
every day

Once or
twice a
week

Once or
twice a
month

A few
times a
year

Never or
hardly
ever

a. Read for fun on your own time.

A

B

C

D

E

b. Tell a friend about a good book.

A

B

C

D

E

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