2010 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Wave 1

NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS

Wave 1 Submittal for 2010
VOLUME II
Part 1e
BACKGROUND QUESTIONS
FOR 2010 ASSESSMENT

Student Grade 4 U.S. History Questions

Part 1e contains:
Student Grade 4 U.S. History Questions
The amount of time estimated to complete this form is 15 minutes.

Updated June 10, 2009
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Student Questionnaire
U.S. History — Grade 4
Section 4
This section has 20 questions. Mark your answers in your booklet. Fill in only one
oval for each question except where instructed otherwise.

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1. How often do you study social studies in school? [4]
(A) Never or hardly ever
(B) Once or twice a month
(C) Once or twice a week
(D) Almost every day

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2. Have you ever studied the history of the United States in school? [4]
(A) Yes
(B) No

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3. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you read
material from a textbook? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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4. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you read extra
material not in the regular textbook, such as biographies or historical stories? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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5. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you make use
of letters, diaries, or essays written by historical people? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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6. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you discuss the
material you have studied? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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7. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you write short
answers (a paragraph or less) to questions? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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8. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you write a
report? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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9. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you work on a
group project? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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10. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you give a
presentation to the class on the topic being studied? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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11. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you watch
movies or videos? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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12. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you take a test
or quiz? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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13. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you go on field
trips or have outside speakers? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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14. When you study history or social studies in school, how often do you use the
books or computers in the library to do schoolwork? [4]
(A) Never
(B) A few times a year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) Once or twice a week
(E) Almost every day

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15. This year in school, how often have you been asked to write long answers to
questions or assignments for history or social studies? [4/8/12]
(A) Never
(B) Once or twice this year
(C) Once or twice a month
(D) At least once a week

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16. How often do you use computers at school for history or social studies? [4/8]
(A) Never or hardly ever
(B) Once every few weeks
(C) About once a week
(D) Two or three times a week
(E) Every day

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17. When you study history or social studies, do you do research projects about
history or social studies topics using a CD or the Internet? Include things you do
in class and things you do for homework assignments. [4]
(A) Yes
(B) No

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18. How hard was this test compared to most other tests you have taken this year in
school? [4/8/12]
(A) Easier than other tests
(B) About as hard as other tests
(C) Harder than other tests
(D) Much harder than other tests

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19. 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? [4/8/12]
(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

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20. How important was it to you to do well on this test? [4/8/12]
(A) Not very important
(B) Somewhat important
(C) Important
(D) Very important

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