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TESTING

Local Students
Question 1: If standardized national tests were given to students in this community, how do you think they would score on these tests? (Asked in: 1991.)
[Code: 782-TesLX-1]

Local, State, or National Tests
Question 2: Some people believe that since every community has a different racial and occupational mix, tests given in different subjects for promotion should be prepared for that school system only. Other people think the tests should be prepared on a statewide basis. Still others think that they should be prepared on a national basis to be given to students in the same grade throughout the nation. Which of these three ways would you prefer -- having tests prepared on a local, state, or national basis? (Asked in: 1978.)
[Code: 784-TesLX-2]

National Testing
Question 3: Would you favor or oppose requiring the public schools in this community to use standardized national tests to measure the academic achievement of students? (Asked in: 1989, 1991, 1992.)
[Code: 787-TesNX-3]

National Testing: Specific Areas for National Test
Question 4: Would you favor or oppose requiring the public schools in this community to use standardized testing programs to measure students' achievement in the following areas: A. knowledge in five core subjects: English, math, science, history, and geography? B. problem-solving skills? C. ability to write a clear composition or paper on some topic? (Asked in: 1991.)
[Code: 794-TesNS-4]

National Testing and Its Purposes
Question 5: Would you like to see students in the local schools given national tests so that their educational achievement could be compared with students in other communities? (Asked in: 1970, 1971, 1983, 1986, 1988.)
[Code: 788-TesNX-5]

Question 6: What if these standardized national tests were made optional for all public schools, so that the policy-making authorities in each district could decide whether or not to give the tests? Would you favor or oppose making these tests optional? (Asked of those who answered "oppose" or "don't know" to the previous question "Would you favor or oppose requiring the public schools in this community to use standardized national tests to measure the academic achievement of students?")
(Asked in: 1991.)
[Code: 786-TesNX-6]

Question 7: In addition to measuring the academic achievement of students, do you think standardized national tests should be used or should not be used in the public schools in this community for the following purposes? To identify areas in which students need extra help? To identify areas in which teachers need to improve their teaching skills? To rank the local public schools in terms of student achievement? To determine if a student advances to the next grade level of schooling? To determine the level of funding each local school should receive? To determine how much teachers should be paid? (Asked in: 1992, 1993.)
[Code: 785-TesNX-7]

National Tests: Comparing Communities
Question 8: Would you like to see the students in the local schools be given national tests so that their educational achievement could be compared with students in other communities? (Asked in: 1970, 1971, 1983, 1986, 1988.)
[Code: 748-TesNC-8]

Remediation
Question 9: When do you think remedial help should be provided -- during the regular school day or outside the school day, such as after school, on Saturdays, and during summer break? (Asked in: 1991.)
[Code: 789-TesRX-9]

Reporting Achievement for Comparison:
Question 10: Do you think the students here would get higher scores than students in similar communities, or not so high? (Asked in: 1970.)
[Code: 790-TesRX-10]

Question 11: It is now being proposed that educational achievement test results be reported on a state-by-state and school-by-school basis, so that comparisons can be made between schools of similar size and racial and economic make-up. Do you favor or oppose this proposal (Asked in: 1987.)
[Code: 791-TesRX-11]

Question 12: Let's assume that the students in the local public schools received higher test results than students in comparable schools elsewhere. Do you think this would serve as an incentive for the local schools to do an even better job or not? (Asked in: 1987.)
[Code: 792-TesRX-12]

Question 13: Let's assume that the students in the public schools in this community received lower test scores than students in comparable schools elsewhere. Do you think this would encourage the local schools to try to do a better job or not? (Asked in: 1987.)
[Code: 793-TesRX-13]

Students Who Fail
Question 14: Now, let's assume that national achievement standards and goals for a student's advancement to the next grade are adopted by the public schools of this community. Which one of these approaches do you think would be better for a student who fails to meet the standards: require the student to repeat the grade with remedial help, or promote the student to the next grade with remedial help? (Asked in: 1991.)
[Code: 776-TesSX-14]

Use of Tests
Question 15: In your opinion, should the primary use of tests be to determine how much students have learned or to determine the kind of instruction they need in the future? (Asked in: 2000, 2001.)
[Code: 795-TesUX-15]

Voluntary Testing Program
Question 16: A proposal has been made that the federal government administer a voluntary national testing program that would routinely test fourth- and eighth-grade students in order to measure the performance of the nation's public schools. In general, do you favor or oppose this proposal? (Asked in: 1998.)
[Code: 796-TesVX-16]

Amount of Testing
Question 17: Over the last decade there has been a significant increase in testing in the public schools to measure academic achievement. Just your impression, or what you may have heard or read, has increased testing helped, hurt, or made no difference in the performance of the local public schools? (Asked in: 2007, 2013.)
[Code: 842-TesAX-17]

Helpfulness of Testing
Question 18: Some teachers believe student standardized tests help them know more about their studentsÕ academic achievements. Other teachers believe that student standardized tests do not help them know what to teach. What do you think? Are student standardized tests helpful, or are they not helpful to teachers? (Asked in: 2014.)
[Code: 975-TesHX-18]

Support for Specific Tests
Question 19: How supportive are you of the following types of student tests. Are you very supportive, somewhat supportive, not very supportive, or not at all supportive? College entrance tests, such as SAT or ACT; Tests that determine if the student should be promoted from one grade to the next; Tests used to award high school students college credit, such as Advanced Placement (i.e. AP) exam; Tests used to determine whether a student can be awarded a high school diploma. (Asked in: 2014.)
[Code: 976-TesSX-19]

Question 20: Do you think that all parents with children in the public schools should be allowed to excuse their child from taking one or more standardized tests? (Asked in: 2015.)
[Code: 992-Tes2PX-20] Online poll

Question 21: Would you excuse your own child from taking one or more standardized tests? (Asked in: 2015.)
[Code: 995-Tes2PX-21] Online poll

Question 22: How important is it for you to know how the students in your community's schools perform on standardized tests compared with students in other school districts? How important is it for you to know how students in your state perform on standardized tests compared with students in other states? How important is it for you to know how students in this country perform on standardized tests, such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), compared with students in other countries? (Asked in: 2015.)
[Code: 994-Tes2RX-22] Online poll

Question 23: On a five-point scale, where 5 means strongly agree and 1 means strongly disagree, please think about your level of agreement with the following statement: My child complains about taking too many standardized tests. (Asked in: 2015.)
[Code: 996-Tes2ST-23] Online poll

Helpfulness of testing:
Question 24: Thinking of the standardized tests your child in public school takes, how confident are you that these tests do a good job measuring how well your child is learning? Are you very confident of that, somewhat confident, not so confident, or not confident at all? (Asked in: 2017.)
[Code: 1040-Tes2HX-24]

Question 25: How confident are you that standardized tests can do a good job measuring how well students have developed skills such as being cooperative, respectful of others, and persistent at solving problems -- are you very confident that standardized tests can do a good job measuring these things, somewhat confident, not so confident, or not confident at all? (Asked in: 2017.)
[Code: 1043-Tes2HX-25]

Importance of what is measured
Question 26: Do you think that standardized tests do or do not measure the things about your child’s public school education that are most important to you personally? Do you feel that way strongly or somewhat? (Asked in: 2017.)
[Code: 1041-Tes2IX-26]

Schools accountable for student scores
Question 27: In addition to being held accountable for student test scores on academic skills, do you think public schools should or should not also be held accountable for student test scores on these other skills? (Asked in: 2017.)
[Code: 1044-Tes2AX-27]

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