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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: 2003
| Grade | Total |
Reading for literary experience |
Reading to gain information |
Reading to perform a task |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 102 | 51 | 51 | † |
| 8 | 151 | 50 | 58 | 43 |
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† The purpose "reading to perform a task" was not assessed at grade 4. NOTE: Grade 12 was not assessed in 2003. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2003 Reading Assessment. |
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Last updated 17 February 2009 (RF)
