The 13-question survey that eighth-grade students customarily fill out during NAEP tests asks how much school their parents completed. It can also include questions such as: “Does your family get a newspaper at least four times a week?” and “About how many books are there in your home?” For fourth-graders, it has asked whether they have Internet access, a dishwasher or a “clothes dryer just for your family.”
Plan aims to determine students’ socioeconomic status
Have these questions been updated for 2013? Who gets a newspaper at home 4 times per week? If I don’t is it likely that my family is poor or under-educated? You mean newspaper on my tablet, right? Which might indicate the opposite.
How many books are there in my home? Not many as I’ve switched to e-books. Does that count? Because the number of actual books in my house wouldn’t reflect how voracious a reader I am.
Dishwasher? Clothes Dryer? Are these questions weighted for geography?
