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NAEP Instruments → Cognitive Items and Instruments → Development of the Reading Cognitive Items and Instruments → Number of Reading Items, By Purpose for Reading and Grade: 2002
| Grade | Total | Reading for literary experience |
Reading to gain information | Reading to perform a task |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 82 | 41 | 41 | † |
| 8 | 111 | 30 | 48 | 33 |
| 12 | 114 | 27 | 56 | 31 |
| † The purpose "reading to perform a task" was not assessed at grade 4. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2002 Reading Assessment. |
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Last updated 22 August 2008 (JL)
