NAEP 2008 - 2010 Wave 2

Student Questionnaire

Reading – Grade 12

(Incentive Study)

SECTION 4

This section has 9 questions. Mark your answers in your booklet. Fill in only one oval for each question.

1. How often do you do each of the following? Fill in one oval on each line. (VB379288)

	Never or hardly ever	Once or twice a month	Once or twice a week	Almost every day
Read for fun on your own time	A	B	C	D	(VB379289)
Talk with your friends or family about something you have read	A	B	C	D	(VB379290)

2. NOT including reading that you do for school, how often do you spend time reading each of the following types of fiction? Fill in one oval on each line. (VB345628)

	Never or hardly ever	A few times a year	Once or twice a month	At least once a week
Comic books or joke books	A	B	C	D	VB345629
Fiction books or stories (books or stories about imagined events)	A	B	C	D	VB345630
Plays	A	B	C	D	VB345631
Poems	A	B	C	D	VB345632

3. NOT including reading that you do for school, how often do you spend time reading each of the following types of non-fiction? Fill in one oval on each line. (VB345657)

	Never or hardly ever	A few times a year	Once or twice a month	At least once a week
Biographies or autobiographies	A	B	C	D	VB345658
Books about science (for example, nature, animals, astronomy)	A	B	C	D	VB345659
Books about technology (for example, machines, computers)	A	B	C	D	VB345660
Books about other countries	A	B	C	D	VB345661
Books about history	A	B	C	D	VB345662
Other non-fiction books	A	B	C	D	VB345664

4. NOT including reading that you do for school, how often do you spend time reading each of the following types of articles or stories? Fill in one oval on each line. (VB345640)

	Never or hardly ever	A few times a year	Once or twice a month	At least once a week
Articles or stories in a newspaper	A	B	C	D	VB345641
Articles or stories in a magazine	A	B	C	D	VB345642
Articles or stories on the Internet	A	B	C	D	VB345643

5. How hard was this test compared to most other tests you have taken this year in school? (VB595182)

A Easier than other tests

B About as hard as other tests

C Harder than other tests

D Much harder than other tests

6. How hard did you try on this test compared to how hard you tried on most other tests you have taken this year in school? (VC034559)

A Not as hard as on other tests

B About as hard as on other tests

C Harder than on other tests

D Much harder than on other tests

7. How important was it to you to do well on this test? (VB595184)

A Not very important

B Somewhat important

C Important

D Very important

8. How much education do you think you will complete? (QK070697)

A I will not finish high school.

B I will graduate from high school.

C I will have some education after high school.

D I will graduate from college.

E I will go to graduate school.

F I don’t know.

9. What do you expect that your main activity will be in the year after you leave high school? (VC101417)

A Working full time

B Attending a vocational, technical, or business school

C Attending a two-year college

D Attending a four-year college, service academy, or university

E Serving in the military

F Other

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