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High School Student Survey
112,003 Students
63 questions
Questions (1-10) (11-23) (24-43) (44-53) (54-63)
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| 11. Do YOU read any weekly news magazines such as Time, Newsweek or U.S. News & World Report? | 18. During an average week, how many total hours do you spend participating in extra-curricular/after-school activities? (Your best guess is fine.) | ||||||
| 20% | Yes | 24% | 1–5 | ||||
| 77 | No | 17 | 6–10 | ||||
| 4 | Don't know | 15 | 11–15 | ||||
| 9 | 16–20 | ||||||
| 12. How much news and information do you get about what is going on at your high school? | 4 | 21–25 | |||||
| 4 | More than 25 | ||||||
| 21% | A lot | 27 | None | ||||
| 45 | Some | ||||||
| 26 | Not much | ||||||
| 6 | None at all | ||||||
| 2 | Don’t know | ||||||
| 13. How much do you trust journalists to tell the truth? Do you believe they tell the truth... | 19. Have you ever taken classes in high school that dealt with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? | ||||||
| 4% | 58% | Yes | |||||
| 58 | 42 | No | |||||
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| 14–17. Do you currently or have you recently participated in each of the following extra-curricular/after-school programs or activities? | 20. Have you ever taken classes in high school that discuss the role of media in society? | ||||||
| 52% | Yes | ||||||
| 14. Performance Arts (including Music, Band, Dance, Theatre, Acting) | 48% | No | |||||
| 38% | Yes | ||||||
| 62 | No | ||||||
| 21. Have you ever taken classes in high school that dealt primarily with journalism skills? | |||||||
| 15. Sports | |||||||
| 57% | Yes | 21% | Yes | ||||
| 43 | No | 79 | No | ||||
| 16. Debate or speech clubs/competitions | 22. Have you ever taken a class in high school where the teacher required as a class assignment that you read a newspaper or watch television news? | ||||||
| 11% | Yes | ||||||
| 90 | No | ||||||
| 75 | Yes | ||||||
| 17. Student Council or other forms of student government | 25 | No | |||||
| 15% | Yes | ||||||
| 85 | No | ||||||
| 23. How frequently do you discuss issues in the news with friends and/or family members? | |||||||
| 18% | All of the time | ||||||
| 44 | Some of the time | ||||||
| 28 | Little of the time | ||||||
| 8 | Not at all | ||||||
| 2 | Don’t know | ||||||
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