CHAPTER 2: Survey on the Status of Social Studies (S4): An Instrumentation Description

Members of the State of Social Studies Research team sought to develop a survey that pointed toward the interests of social studies teacher education and reflected existing theory and research of the field. The development of the Survey on the Status of Social Studies (S4), as described below, is a concerted effort among researchers to construct an instrument that examines areas of teaching, content emphasis, and professional disposition in order to better understand the confounding nature of how social studies is enacted.